"If that seemed like a foreboding note to fade out on…that's because it IS," Jeremy says. "Still to come tonight, CELL ON EARTH…the second of JENNY'S matches tonight, and I hope that she's going to be in even SLIGHTLY competing shape when that match takes place. BLOSSOM will be in that as well, keep in mind, one-third of the representation for the Women's Tag Team Champs The Powerpuff Girls—what do you think THEY thought of that Ladder Match we just witnessed?"
"…I'm sure they've already got a plan figured out on how to ship those witches back to Oz in a box," Cris states. "At least I HOPE they do. Jesus…they actually WON that? Are you sure we're not imagining this?"
"They are INDEED the Tag Premier League Champions, and when Hana-Gumi DOES contest for those Tag Team Titles in the future, if what we've seen tonight is any indication, THAT outing is sure to be magnificent," Al states.
"Magnificently HUMBLING would be nice…" Cris grumbles.
"As for TONIGHT though, we still have PLENTY MORE action to come here in the Wells Fargo Center, including the Elimination Eight-Man Winners Take All contest with the two men you just saw, Dan Kuso and Shun Kazami, and the Dragon Kids teaming against Doc Louis Productions—Aran Ryan, the Forces of Nature, and Sportacus; that match is still to come," Jonathan says. "But OUTSIDE of the arena, we have the Skatepark Brawl between Tony Delvecchio and Otto Rocket live at Love Park—we checked in on the scene over there during the Pre-Show, and now we're about to have a look back at how things are looking at THIS period in time. Sunny Day, Vinny the Gooch, how's it looking?"
…
Cameras switch to Love Park, where the crowd of hundreds of fans is turning into THOUSANDS, the park becoming much more crowded with spectators…
…
…and Vinny the Gooch is sitting at the announce desk ALONE…wearing a baseball catcher's mask AND a football helmet along with a catcher's chest protector for his torso. The whole thing looks as goofy as it sounds.
"Hey, youse!" Vinny greets the public. "We're still here, uh, waiting for the participants; my boy Tony's gotta be on his way here lickety-split to embarrass the Rocket Boy in front of these scary—I mean crazy—I mean ugly ECW scum-eating fans I'm being forced to interact with!"
"…Uh, Vin, can I ask why you're wearing a football helmet AND a catcher's mask?" Jeremy asks from his own desk at the Wells Fargo Center via satellite.
"Because the moon's in my eyes!" Vinny shouts. "How can I call the action of The Vec kicking Otto Rocket in the butt when I can't even see what I'm supposed to be describing? Does that seem productive to you, Jeremy?"
"I…would say not…" Jeremy sweatdrops.
"Segueing from the moon somewhat, where's Sunny, Vinny?" Jonathan asks.
"Uhhhh, Sunny went to go get us some drinks; she said she'd be back soon," Vinny states. "Thought we'd be parched after too much carnage, she said."
"Oh, is that what she said?" Jonathan inquires.
"You bet!" Vinny nods.
"Is that why I see Sunny being carried around by the crowd directly behind you?" Jonathan queries…
…as indeed, behind Vinny there is a swarm of fans that are carrying Sunny Day on their arms over their heads, body-surfing her and directing the Backyard Sports broadcaster around the entire spectating audience chanting "EC-DUB! EC-DUB! EC-DUB! EC-DUB!"
"Wha…?!" Vinny turns around and sees this, rubbing his eyes. "…HEY, YOU PSYCHOPATHS, GIMME BACK MY PLAY-BY-PLAY GIRL!"
"…Ummm…can weeeeee get any word from Sunny?" Al blinks.
"You can!" Sunny Day manages to shout…while still being carried around by fans, getting caught up in others' projection of objects from flying beverages to flying…people with other skateboards. "Hi-de-ho! Ummm…as you can see here, the fan count is RISING with NO signs of slowing up or stopping!"
Sunny almost gets hit by a beach ball…
"Even with it being standing room only here, the fans CANNOT WAIT to see Tony Delvecchio and Otto Rocket settle their score right here live in Love Park for what will be a match decided by pinfall or submission, falls counting ANYWHERE in the skatepark, and, of course, ANYTHING GOES," Sunny says, now with ketchup in her hair…at least we hope that's ketchup. "Ummm…Tony and Otto don't seem to have arrived yet, but I got word recently that they are on their way…so I guess I'll just…heheh, be here to…wait for them and you'll know…when that time comes, heheheh! …Heh…until then, I'll just send it back to you guys in the Wells Fargo Center for the next match there!" As soon as she finishes that sentence, with one last nervous chuckle, Sunny tries to sit up…
…
"WHOOP!" But she has to LIMBO underneath a long barbwire clothesline that has been hoisted up for her by two other spectators! Sunny NARROWLY manages to keep her head and her hair intact, flashing a smile for the camera placed upon her.
"…Thanks Sunny! We look forward to that in just a little bit—thank you Vinny as well!" Al says.
Sunny just keeps on smiling…
…
…
…as the fans change direction with Sunny once more, carrying her to the barbwire limbo pole AGAIN…
…
…and Sunny is seen mouthing the words "Help m—"
Aaaaand the feed cuts out until later from that.
"Well, THAT is an ECW fanatical audience if EVER I've seen one! Heh-heh…heh… You think she'll be okay down there?" Al asks his broadcast colleagues with a gulp.
"…" Jonathan, Jeremy and Cris all look at each other.
"…Yeah, she'll live," Cris says.
"She's a trooper Sunny is," Jeremy nods.
"I'll send her my hopes and prayers," Jonathan states.
"…Sooooo we shouldn't at all be CONCERNED?" Al blinks at their rated quick answer..
"Nah, I don't think so," Cris says.
"Probably no need," Jeremy chuckles.
"She'll go with God," Jonathan says.
"…Okay…" Al concedes…
…
…
…as a LOUD ambulance claxon is heard!
"AH!" Jeremy winces, covering the sides of his head in auditory recoil. "Ears! Ears! I KINDA NEED those!"
"…Well, that can mean one of two things – either the Tag Premier League participants are getting door-to-door service to medical attention…or someone ELSE is about to REQUIRE medical attention," Al says.
The siren continues to resonate throughout the Wells Fargo Center, some of the fans covering their ears too, while others are looking up in anticipation…
…
…
…
…because when they see the ambulance driving out onto the bottom of the stage, slowing to a stop and parking at the foot of the stage itself beneath the top of the entrance ramp, they know what match is coming up next.
"Can't they put silencers on these guys? Or, like, a volume control?!" Jeremy requests. "That's not too much to ask, is it?"
"Don't worry, because the people about to be stuffed in that ambulance are lucky, they aren't going to be hearing a THING when they're inside," Cris sneers.
"…Ambulance has parked at the bottom of our Regal Rumble stage…and much like our previous matchup, this one has a potentially pivotal prize hanging at the end of it," Jonathan states…
…as the bell rings, and Blader DJ announces, "Your next match here, ladies and gentlemen…is a Regal Rumble Qualifying Tag Team Ambulance Match! Now, in this match, there will be no pinfalls or submissions, nor will there be any disqualifications; the object of winning is for one team to place another team's members BOTH inside the ambulance with both of the ambulance's back doors closing shut. The first to accomplish this will be declared winners of the match…and shall advantage into the Double X 30-Female Regal Rumble Match!"
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The lights go green…an earthy green…
("Can't Be Tamed" by Miley Cyrus plays)
"Here we go—oh? OH…" Jeremy reacts with intrigue at this new entrance theme.
…
…
[Rock mafia!]
…as Annie Frazier DASHES onto and across the stage, extending her arms forward towards the hyped fans as though giving them double high-fives from the distance. She waves with both arms to the crowd, letting them know how happy she is to see them…and then she runs to the other end of the stage to do the same to the fans in the western wing of the building. As Annie is standing there, in the middle of blowing a kiss for someone to catch, she sees the ambulance just yards away from her…a vehicle which makes her pause briefly in contemplation…but doesn't remove the smile on her face; rather, after a four-second gaze at it, she goes down the ramp to touch the hands of the front-row fanatics reaching for tangible high-fives from their lovable yet admittedly eccentric Granola Girl.
[For those who don't know me
I can get a bit crazy
Have to get my way, yep
Twenty-four hours a day
'Cause I'm hot like that!
Every guy everywhere just gives me mad attention
Like I'm under inspection
I always get a ten 'cause I'm built like that!]
Annie goes from the stage to the bottom of the ramp high-fiving the fans to her left…then backs up all the way in reverse to high-five the fans she missed on the RIGHT…and then she stops and stands in the middle of the ramp, takes a deep breath to herself…
"What on Earth—ugh—…is this psycho doing?" Cris asks in deadpan fashion.
[I go through guys like money flying out the hands
They try to change me, but they realize they can't
And every tomorrow is a day I never plan
If you're gonna be my man, understand…]
…
…
…and splays her arms in an Okada-like Rainmaker pose, which triggers a FLOWER SHOWER from above, an assortment of daisies, tulips and violets descending from the ceiling for fans in attendance to catch!
"WHOA!" Jeremy gasps. "Um…COOL! Yeah, WAY cool! Jon, catch one! Catch one!"
"I'm NOT THE ATHLETIC TWIN," Jonathan reminds his brother.
[I can't be tamed!
I can't be tamed!
I can't be blamed!
I can't, can't, I can't, can't be tamed!
I can't be changed!
I can't be tamed!
I can't be, can't, I can't be tamed!]
Annie slowly drifts her head downward from the sky to the ring in front of her and the fans around her cheering…and that smile on her face is still as bright as ever. The Philadelphia crowd extends themselves to catch Annie's flowers, while Annie herself unties the flower in her hair to give it to a small girl, aged about 9 years old, in the front row beside her father. Annie gives the young lady the flower…along with a kiss on the lips, which brings the fan to blush in affectionate confusion (and her father to carry his own bemused expression) as Annie rubs the girl's head, skips off, and slides into the ring to run her way up a corner and play to the fans even more.
"Introducing first, for team number one, from Frazier Field in Meadowbrook," Blader DJ announces, "weighing 126 pounds, Annie Frazier!"
"Okay, even WITHOUT considering this girl's actions against my District Leader, I still want to watch her get murdered," Cris says.
"Annie Frazier, full of LIFE here in the Wells Fargo Center and sharing it with nearly 20,000 of us inside of here," Al speaks. "You'd think she hadn't been placed inside of one of those ambulances and driven into a wall of a building and a truck several times, putting her in bandages and bruising her profusely…but that's EXACTLY what befell her on XX 23 three weeks ago."
"And she brought it ALL upon HERSELF—don't forget to mention THAT!" Cris asserts.
"What Cris has been alluding to is what Annie Frazier was involved in at Pride & Glory," Jonathan explains. "She had eyes and desires placed upon competing in the Diamond in the Mine Match in Steelport at that Mega Event representing CCW, but after Pandemonium, after the Demon's Dungeon Match, and after the Fiction Wrestling Awards of 2014…Zoe Payne was given the nod by management INSTEAD of her, and that hurt the EnvironMENTAList more than she's letting onto us right here and now. She wanted BADLY to have that opportunity, but it was not to be in her favor…which led to Pride & Glory itself, when Annie and Reggie Rocket came out towards the closing moments and effectively PULLED OUT Zoe from the ring and left her unable to retrieve the briefcase, unable to have that coveted Diamond in the Mine and to call herself Best of the Best—"
"Because they LOST at Pandemonium," Cris interrupts. "Zoe Payne and The END DEFEATED those two and the girl they tried so pointlessly to fight for, and that same little girl ended up getting EVISCERATED and taken out on a stretcher once AGAIN! ANOTHER career shortener, Zoe Payne the catalyst! BUT because this Nutty Nutbar doesn't know when she's BEAT, she had to poke the bear once again. And THIS time, it caused even MORE collateral damage—good on her!"
"Annie may be part of the reason why Zoe Payne is coming into this a RAGING BULL…but since Annie loves animals so much, she should know how to TAME such a beast, which is exactly what she'll be fighting to do, because after what Zoe did to her in the ambulance weeks ago…Frazier's looking to give it right back to her," Jeremy says.
"For herself AND for her friends," Al adds.
[If there is a question about my intentions, I'll tell ya
I'm not here to sell ya
Or tell you to go to hell
(I'm not a brat like that!)
I'm like a puzzle but all of my pieces are jagged
If you can understand this
We can make some magic; I'm wrong like that
Annie jumps down from the corner, takes another look up the ramp…at the ambulance, the sight of which brings Frazier to swallow something in her throat…before seeing something else – the Regal Rumble sign on the Minitron just a few meters away from the ambulance. If there was any apprehension, Annie was a WIZARD at hiding it. The truth was…she was entering this match with no fear whatsoever.
"Dead girl walking…" Cris states.
"…This is Annie Frazier, ladies and gentlemen—upbeat even in the face of potential VIOLENCE…because the last thing she wants to do is let that violence turn her dark, turn her into something or someone else…something ELSE that she talked about," Al mentions.
"And as for her partner? Reggie's going to be on Cell on Earth, and we all know what became of Emmy…so for THIS role, Annie Frazier, on XX 24, the week after she was brutalized, the nature lover and defender…called a friend…" Jonathan says, alluding to something of his own.
"Can't Be Tamed" stops playing…but the crowd doesn't stop cheering, only loudening from here because of what's about to come next…
…something that Annie is more than eager and energetic enough to remind everyone, starting up a chant of "AMY! AMY! AMY! AMY!" that builds and builds, Philadelphia joining in…
…
…
…and something catches everybody's attention on the stage: …a GIANT bulb of a rose flower. This makes Annie gush even MORE…
"And we await the arrival…of that friend," Jeremy says.
…
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…
…
And suddenly, the lights turn an appropriate pink…
…
…as the sound of violins echoes out of the speakers…
"Ohhhh, she's coming out to THIS song? I LOVE this song!" Jeremy mini-marks out.
"So does Annie by the appearance of it," Jonathan watches.
Annie bobs her head to the melody of the tune playing here…or at least the intro of said tune…as her anticipation, along with the fans', continues to escalate…
…
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…
…
[Hit that—hit that snare!]
("Misery Business" by Paramore plays)
With one drum smash and the guitars kicking in, the giant rose bulb suddenly OPENS UP and BLOOMS, revealing the Sonic Heroine Amy Rose inside! The crowd goes ecstatic with their ovation, while Annie JUMPS upon the sight of her partner. Amy stands inside of the open rose…taking in the HUGE pop and reception she is receiving…which she acknowledges by pointing a finger at the fans around the building, letting them know she sees each and every one of them…and her finger stops upon something…blue… Maybe it's Sonic? Maybe it's not? Either way, she gives a wide smile and wink at this blue person/dot/spec…
…and then directs her finger to the Regal Rumble sign…and says, "Might want to save some cheers for THERE, guys…" with a confident smirk. She then looks at Annie, asking, "Ready?"
"SO ready!" Annie replies, prompting Amy to nod and make her way down the ramp, high-fiving fans of her own on the way to meet her nature-loving fellow warrior.
[I'm in the business of misery; let's take it from the top
She's got a body like an hourglass that's ticking like a clock
It's a matter of time before we all run out
When I thought he was mine, she caught him by the mouth]
"And her tag team partner," says Blader DJ, "from the Little Planet, ALSO weighing 126 pounds, making her return to Fiction Wrestling PPV, Amy Rose!"
"And what a place to MAKE that return!" Al exclaims.
"Yeah, as a lamb being lead to the slaughter—a true honor!" Cris remarks.
"When Annie called Amy Rose to sign with CCW to join the fight versus The END, Amy saw it as many things," Jonathan says, "from doing her part to keep the Division fortified from The END's wrath, to forging a friendship and fighting in the name of it…"
"Impressing Sonic is probably in that list somewhere," Jeremy chuckles.
"Yeah…" Jonathan half-sweatdrops.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that! If I had a shot at impressing Tammy by wrestling a match, I'd do it!" Jeremy admits. "I'd do it in half a heartbeat! …Can hearts even beat half a time?"
"And ANOTHER reason," Jonathan continues on, "was for the Rosy Rascal, the three-time UCA Women's Champion and WWL major name to show the Fiction Wrestling world that she's STILL HERE. It's been a number of weeks going on perhaps months since Rose has been in a televised matchup on Monday nights, and even LONGER that she's been wrestling on a Sunday, but here she is and here she comes, ready to do just that in a CCW ring…in an AMBULANCE MATCH versus Bella Swan and Zoe Payne."
[I waited eight long months
She finally set him free
I told him I couldn't lie; he was the only one for me
Two weeks and we had caught on fire
She's got it out for me, but I wear the biggest smile]
"Amy made her first appearance in CCW at the expense of the former in that duo, Bella, by arriving in the middle of the No Holds Barred Match between Bella and Reggie Rocket to take out Lucy van Pelt and Rose Flow DDT the vampire and allow her fellow veteran of the game Rocket to capitalize and win her way into Cell on Earth," Al recounts.
"And thus, SHE incurred the wrath of Zoe Payne too," Cris says. "Guilty by action AND association! Tonight, she and Annie BOTH will pay the price!"
[Whoa, well I never meant to brag
But I've gotten what I wanted now!
Whoa, it was never my intention to brag
To steal it all away from you now!
But God does it feel so good
'Cause I got him where I want him now!
And if you could then you know you would!
'Cause God it just feels so…!
It just feels so good!]
Amy stands on the ring apron and—gets hugged by Frazier from behind before she can even get into the ring. Amy gasps in surprise, looks behind her and smiles…and sweatdrops, asking Annie if she can let go so Amy can get in the ring herself. Annie obliges, backing off…and Amy just shrugs and giggles, knowing full well that this is what she's getting herself into. She vaults her way into the ring and ascends a corner, standing on the middle rope and letting everybody know that she's happy to be there…but even happier to make her career resurgence OFFICIAL.
"Or will tonight be the night where Annie and Amy initiate PAYBACK upon The END?" Jonathan states. "Because remember, after this…two women, the VICTORIOUS women, march on to the Regal Rumble later tonight, and for Amy, returning to PPV couldn't get much SWEETER than running the table and going two for two from Ambulance Match to the Rumble Match."
"…Course, that'd put her AGAINST Annie, the same girl she's teaming with…" Jeremy brings up.
"A bridge to be traversed when they get to it," Al says. "…IF they get to it…"
"They won't," Cris not-so-subtly whispers.
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…
("Christcontrol" by Cancer Killing Gemini plays)
Black and red engulfs the arena now, along with loud boos (and scattered vocal cheers in favor of…at least one-half of this team)…
…
…
…as Bella Swan comes out from the lower level of the stage, from whence the ambulance came minutes earlier…and with her eyes on the opposition, she wraps the crook of her arm around the ambulance's rear view mirror, much like Corey Graves does/did in NXT wrapping his own arm around the ring post to stand by and pose…
[Push my head into the sea
Learned from killing time
With chemicals and pantomime
When I put myself in place
Still you're in my
You know you barely make me think
I'm gonna drive myself to drink
(Where's my Christ?)]
…and Bella turns her attentions to the higher part of the stage…where Zoe Payne methodically comes on out.
[(Where's my Christ?)
And I heard it's all a game]
One look at the SSX Demon indicates how purely BENT she is on sending the two girls in the ring to the hospital…and that was only the bare minimum. Annie returns Zoe's stare from where she stands…Amy still in the corner herself watching it all. Annie, normally bubbly and cheery, was less so as her eyes met the snowboarder's. Bella Swan, meanwhile, walks away from the ambulance to be two women's resting place…and comes onto the ramp a few steps in front of Zoe. Payne rolls her neck around her shoulders before coming down towards the ring herself, where Bella motions carefully for Zoe to come closer to her, so the vampire can give Zoe some private words…
"And team number two, their opponents," Blader DJ announces, "at a combined weight of 303 pounds, the team of Bella Swan and the CCW RR District Leader Zoe Payne; they represent The END!"
"Yes, they do," Cris grins.
"Do you notice that Bella, Zoe's partner for this match, came out from the lower part of the stage, while Zoe Payne came from the normal Gorilla Position?" Al points out. "Anyone who knows Zoe is well-aware of her attitude. She is a DANGEROUS, VOLATILE individual several hours per day—"
"Because of people like Amy and Frazier!" Cris shouts out.
"…But the Zoe Payne that we have witnessed from XX 23 all the way up to this evening has been SO FAR BEYOND anything like we've seen before," Al resumes his dialogue. "After Pride & Glory, after Diamond in the Mine was taken from her, Zoe Payne CHANGED. Zoe Payne changed into MORE than just a destructive woman, and that couldn't have been displayed any more vividly than after she walked to the ring post-TPL tag team contest on XX 23 and absolutely ANNIHILATED everyone she touched on sight. Annie Frazier's fellow Backyard Girls, Sidney and Ashley, each suffered a broken arm and leg respectively due to Zoe; Inez of the Cyber Girls was CONCUSSED; Jackie had four broken ribs; even DEVELOPMENTAL was not safe, as Vicki Kawaguchi got used as Payne's personal CHEW TOY to unleash rage! And it DIDN'T EVEN STOP THERE."
"No, it didn't, as YOU GUYS know better than either of us…" Jeremy says, wincing at the memory.
"…I have never in my life seen Zoe Payne as angry, as livid, as PISSED THE HELL OFF as she was when I saw her on XX that night," Cris says.
"Did you get an apology from her for what you got caught up in?" Jonathan asks.
"Do you think BELLA'S been getting apologies? I sure haven't," Cris answers, "and I don't intend to ask for one, because even Zoe's own FRIENDS have been in peril due to Zoe's EXTRA FEROCIOUS vehemence ever since Steelport. Al and I got an announce table flipped onto us, and Mickey MacElroy our timekeeper is ringing the bell in a SLING because HE got HIS arm broken by Payne too! No one in our staff and no one in Zoe's TEAM was safe around her. That's why nobody in the RR that I know of has seen or even interacted with Zoe Payne since P&G, not even Sonya McCallis, not even Ben Tennyson, not even STAR FORCE."
[All the times I wished to fly
Cancer Killing Gemini
Am I strong enough to speak?
Speak clear to
It's all because of Jill
That Jack was forced to break his
You're teaching me control
And it's just enough to mess up my head!
You're teaching me to crawl
Just so you can watch as it kills me!]
"Zoe's borderline antisocial rampage flared up ALL THE WAY into tonight, making this Ambulance Match all the more fitting of a way for her to exert those energies and try to ELIMINATE the thorn known as Frazier and the newly-added Amy Rose from her side and from her mind…so she can turn focus…to the Regal Rumble herself," Jonathan says. "This woman even took advantage of a LOOPHOLE in her two-week suspension to try to maim Annie Frazier! She will stop at NOTHING to see these two women destroyed!"
"But THOSE TWO WOMEN will stop at nothing to put a collar around the snowboarder and leash her way to that ambulance," Jeremy says. "…Easier said than done, as is obvious."
The END make it to the ring, Bella watching Amy, Zoe watching Annie…and the 2014 FWA Female Wrestler of the Year jumps from ringside ground to apron, all the while still eyeing Frazier. Bella pats Zoe's calf as she slides her way to the apron on a knee, gets up and enters through the ropes. A sneering, scowling, seething all at once Zoe enters as well, proceeding to hop in place in an eerily Lesnar-like fashion. Amy takes a moment here to talk to Annie in her ear, much like Bella did Zoe…and as Annie listens and nods, she keeps note of Payne, seemingly unfazed for the moment.
"Zoe has not taken her eyes off of Frazier AT ALL…" Jonathan notes as referee Lonny Cunningham reviews the rules to all participants, making sure they understand…
…
…
…and the bell sounds…
…and Zoe immediately—no, BELLA charges at Annie Frazier instead, sucker punching her to the mat!
"And the bell sounds—WHOA, HEY!" Al gasps. "Bella STORMING Annie Frazier, who had her eyes off of Bella and on ZOE!"
"Zoe gave the illusion that she wanted to tear Annie apart FIRST…and perhaps she still did, and there'll be plenty of time for it, but Bella pulls the switcheroo—I think THAT may've been when Bella was murmuring to Zoe a few moments earlier; she DESIGNED that!" Cris states.
"Certainly a devious yet admittedly fruitful tactic given this environment as we're underway here now with The END first on offense and Annie and Amy on defense—if you're Annie and Amy, YOU want to be on offense more often than not, ESPECIALLY against The END, ESPECIALLY against Zoe Payne," Jonathan analyzes.
Bella Full Mounts Annie on the canvas to rain down more punches, and Zoe, rather than going after Annie as teased, knees Amy in the stomach! Zoe goes on the furious assault with numerous Back Clubs afterwards…then Muay Thai Clinch Knees whilst holding onto Amy's head. After seven HARD knees, Zoe throws Amy at the ropes…
…where the pink hedgehog Tiger Feints through the ropes and returns to the ring, jumping onto Zoe's back for an Elevated Sleeper Hold! Amy uses this to wear down the dangerous snowboarder…who is in the hold for nine seconds before utilizing an Elevated Snapmare to get Amy off of her. Amy, however, lands on her feet instead of her back when Zoe pries her off, and that permits Amy to Snapmare Zoe instead, following up with a Low-Angle Spinning Heel Kick to the back of the seated Zoe's head! Bella, off of Annie, tries to punch Amy, but Amy ducks it and hits one, two, three, four, five, six Leg Kicks…Irish Whips Bella, and hits her on the rebound with a Dropkick! Zoe, back to standing, runs at Amy and Irish Whips her in stride towards the ropes…and aims to receive her on the return with a Big Boot, but Amy Baseball Slides underneath it to dodge and Dropkicks Zoe in the back! Amy grabs a rising Bella, Irish Whips her again, and delivers another Dropkick, this one to the face! Zoe, still standing, throws an angry Clothesline at Rose, but Amy ducks and the Freedom Fighter Dropkicks her into the ropes!
"Rose sharing the Dropkicks like Huey Long shares the wealth—I got a four out of five on my AP U.S. History exam 'cause my momma's a history professor; shout outs to her!" Jeremy says.
"Not looking like she's lost any steps is the former UCA Women's Champion," Jonathan says. "CONFIDENCE and MOTIVATION radiating off of the hedgehog, with an underlying desire to make sure that she and Annie go to the Regal Rumble tonight, while Payne and Swan are the ones to get taken for an ambulance ride this evening!"
A "Dropkick City! (clap clap clap-clap-clap) Dropkick City! (clap clap clap-clap-clap)" chant breaks out in Philly…which gets a chuckle out of the amused Rose…and Amy goes for an Irish Whip on Zoe…
…which gets reversed…and then reversed BACK, so it is indeed Amy sending Zoe across…
…
…but Amy's Dropkick this time is prevented by Zoe holding onto the ropes to keep herself from bouncing back! Amy tries to get up quickly but Zoe is faster as she pummels Amy Rose with a Running Knee Strike to the face!
"OH! But if you want to talk about kicks and strikes from the legs, look no further than Zoe Payne's VIOLENT arsenal, cranked up to FIFTEEN for this contest against THESE adversaries/victims!" Cris says.
"That Running Knee—of all of the strikes Zoe throws, I'd say that knee is the most DEVASTATING…" Jeremy comments. "Whether it's for a Take a Nap or a shot like THAT one, you don't want your face getting decorated by that thing."
Zoe grabs Amy by the quills and starts rocking her with Kawada Kicks to the carnation-colored forehead, trying to make it a deep RED…but her spree is interrupted by a Running Flying Squirrel Takedown from Frazier…
…which Annie subsequently transitions into a Gutwrench Suplex!
"But how about the GRAPPLING from Annie Frazier—you don't talk too much about that talent from the Backyard Kid, but when she gets HER hands around somebody it's typically effective in its own right!" Al says.
"And you don't see very many TEXTBOOK Flying Squirrels like that in a wrestling ring—you barely see any Flying Squirrels AT ALL—but that's one from Frazier executed PERFECTLY," Jonathan speaks.
"This isn't the Olympics or a scenario where you points from takedowns, however, so what's the big deal about it? Is she putting Zoe in an ambulance with it? NO. WILL SHE be putting Zoe in an ambulance with it? NO. Will she be putting Zoe in an ambulance AT ALL? HELL NO; that ambulance has Frazier and Rose's HEADSTONES engraved inside of it. …I hope it uses a LOT of gas, too. Diesel grade, I pray," Cris sneers.
Zoe pops up in a corner, and Annie is there as well, maintaining offense…with a Running Corner Tiger Flip, stepping off of Payne's chest and back-flipping to her feet once more Tiger Mask-style…and following up with a Monkey Flip! Annie turns around…and grabs Zoe in a Cobra Clutch as the snowboarder gets up…
…but Zoe drops down, reverse bear crawls between Annie's legs, and lifts her up in an Electric Chair…
…
…
…which she pops Annie up and out of…into an Inverted Atomic Drop by her standing partner Bella Swan! This is followed by a Zoe Shoot Kick to the back, and then a Bella STO!
"Remember though; this is still a TAG TEAM Match, meaning that you've gotta watch out for the occasional DOUBLE TEAMS, like THAT!" Al says.
"THERE we go!" Cris applauds.
"Electric Chair popped into the Inverted Atomic Drop, then Shoot Kick, then STO—ALL of that in a matter of seconds—The END, a DANGEROUS force not just because of the individuals, but the sum of their parts as Frazier herself knows VERY well," states Jonathan.
Bella comes down with a Knee Drop onto Annie's face, and then rolls back up to stand and kick Amy in the side of her face. Zoe puts Annie in a brutal Neck Crank, as though she wants to literally rip the Granola Girl's head off of her body. Bella Foot Chokes Amy over the bottom rope, pressing her there…while after a twelve-second Neck Crank, Zoe hurls Annie headfirst into the bottom turnbuckle in another corner! From there, Zoe pulls and lifts Annie's legs, exposing the Backyard Girl's breadbasket for her to kick away at while Frazier is down…
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…and…the Royal Payne then folds Annie's legs, grabs her arms…and puts Frazier in a Rocking Horse! Annie yelps in discomfort from her body being contorted by the submission specialist…
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…who makes matters worse by using the rocking motion of the submission to send Annie's head smacking into the bottom turnbuckle over and over again!
"THIS sure isn't the kind of horse the little tree-screwer's used to!" Cris laughs.
"It sure isn't, as Zoe's going BEYOND the call of her submission hold with that added touch of punishment!" Jonathan says.
"Like a garnish to her entrée of agony," Jeremy quips.
Zoe's grasp on Annie's hands and wrists allows her to pull up and keep on bashing Annie's head into the bottom turnbuckle…driving it into the hasp SIXTEEN total times before walking backward from the corner, keeping Annie and taking her out of there as well…allowing Bella to come in and hit a Leg Drop onto the back of Annie's neck, also planting her face in! Bella, off of that Leg Drop, puts Annie in a Death Star Choke, while Zoe walks over to Amy Rose. Zoe grabs Amy by one of her legs…
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…and tugs her away from the ropes—only for Amy to flip forward back to a vertical base and give Zoe a Gamengiri! Zoe backs off from her nose getting hit…and Amy gets up and punches at Zoe, going on her own attack! Amy wastes no time, wastes no punches…and Zoe throws a retaliatory right, but Amy ducks and Dropkicks Zoe in the knee…permitting her to grab the head and twist to give Payne a Kneeling Neckbreaker…hold on, stand, twist again and transition into an Ace Crusher! After dropping Zoe, Amy runs to Bella and Annie…but Amy's Elbow Drop to Bella misses, as Bella rolls away, keeping her Death Star locked in…and rolling underneath the bottom rope, keeping the Death Star locked in the whole way, dragging Annie out with her!
"Amy Ace Crusher, and she ALMOST got to her partner Annie to free her from Bella's choke, but Swan was able to roll herself AND Frazier outside, all the while MAINTAINING that Death Star hold!" Al calls.
"And that's not all—look at where she's taking her: closer and closer to where the ambulance is," Jeremy points out. "She's still got a way to go, mind ya, but it's a good plan!"
"While asphyxiating Frazier in doing it!" Jonathan quips.
"So beautiful, so evil," Cris smirks.
Bella scoots her way from ringside up the ramp with the Death Star applied, going in the direction of the ambulance all the way by the stage…and Amy gets out of the ring to give chase, also to free her partner in peril. Bella gets one-fourth up the ramp, sapping the energy and oxygen from the nature lover…
…and Amy gets to Bella's location—where Bella unlocks the Death Star and tries another sucker punch, but Amy parries it and grabs Bella's hand and arm in the process…
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…allowing her to run up the barricade and deliver a Modified Springboard Arm Drag! Bella rolls to the opposite barricade to recover herself, while Amy tends to the coughing Annie Frazier, helping her up. Amy makes sure that the blonde youth is all right…
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…before Irish Whipping Annie at Bella into a Stinger Splash into the barricades! Amy then grabs Annie a second time as Annie bounces off of the human turned vampire…and sends her into Bella with a second Stinger Splash! Annie, capturing back her own senses, then picks Bella up and drops her onto the barricade with Snake Eyes! Bella backpedals from there towards a waiting Amy Rose, who Russian Leg Sweeps Bella onto the ramp and floor!
"Ooooh, how about the double-teaming from Annie and Amy? Team A! A for Animals, A for Awesome, A for Athleticism…"
"A for About To DIE, hopefully," Cris snorts.
"We mentioned Zoe and Bella teaming up two-on-one during the match—of course, The END with ANY sort of numbers advantage equals big trouble, as we've seen," Al says, "but the answer to that may be how well the Granola Girl and Rosy Rascal can gel as a tandem, as a TEAM, to their own cause!"
"Though I'm fairly certain Bella and Zoe have spent more time traveling together and teaming up than Annie and Amy have, so one team's chemistry may differ from the other's…" Jonathan mentions.
Amy and Annie, working together, picks a wincing Bella up…
"Right now, Amy and Annie are looking pretty 'chemistrical' right now," Jeremy states. "…Or is it 'chemistrical'? 'Chemistal'? 'Chemistricish'? 'Chemic'? 'Chameleon'? What's the right word?"
…and attempt a Double Suplex…
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…but as the two of them have Bella lifted, Zoe Payne comes from behind and blasts both Frazier and Rose with a Double Clothesline!
"OH! I think the right word would be 'decapitated'!" Cris cheeringly says.
Zoe, her dander and ire rising even more, grabs Amy after this…
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…and Biel Throws Amy over the security barricade, sending her into the crowd and seats!
"Double Suplex try on Bella interrupted by Zoe—PAYNE OH MY GOODNESS!" Jonathan gasps.
"GREAT BOWLS OF CEREAL!" Jeremy exclaims.
"HAHAHA! Better yet, 'deported'! THAT is the word you want right there, Jeremy! THAT'S the one!" Cris claps.
"Zoe Payne almost sending Amy into freaking ORBIT!" Al shouts.
"That's one way to debunk the idiom of trusting someone as far as one can throw 'em!" Jonathan says.
Annie gasps and cries out to Amy with concern, to which Zoe snarls, "SHUT UP!" and just gives Annie a hard Haymaker, setting her up to be Shoulder Barged into the barricade once…twice…thrice…four, five times over. After these, Zoe backs away from the wall…Annie still draped over her shoulder…and the SSX original Spinebusters Annie hard onto the ramp to drop her! Zoe puts Annie in a Cravate, picking her up…
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…and brings her to the golden-colored steel ring post, where she knees Annie in the head—knees her, knees her, knees her…and then swings Annie into a Cravate Ring-Post Rib Breaker! Even after this toss, Zoe holds onto Annie's head, gives her one more knee to the face…and keeps Annie's head close to the post. Zoe lets go of Annie's cranium there…takes a few steps away…
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…and DOESN'T get the Ring-Post Mafia Kick, only hitting the post with her foot instead of Annie's skull, the Backyard Kid finding a way to dodge in time! Annie then grabs Zoe's leg, the errantly booting leg of Payne, and drops Zoe with a Cat's Cradle onto the arena floor!
"Annie might already have her OWN set of broken ribs—but at least she doesn't have a fractured skull, as Zoe no doubt was AIMING FOR with that kick, but instead it's the Cat's Cradle!" Al calls.
"Small Package Driver onto the floor!" Jeremy says.
Annie holds her ribs, the Cravate Ring-Post Rib Breaker of earlier seriously debilitating her…but she pushes on, grabbing Zoe in a one-handed Side Headlock, walking her way up the ramp, eyes on the ambulance farther ahead…
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"Annie probably knows in the back of her mind that when or if she IS fortunate enough to get Zoe off of her feet, she would be best served making sure Zoe STAYS off and expediting her into that ambulance as QUICKLY as possible!" Jonathan states.
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…but Bella Swan runs to the barricade and steps up, using it to NAIL Annie with a Beautiful Nightmare to the temple!
"Yeah, because you never know what'll become of you if Zoe recovers—ORRRR if Bella Swan does THAT!" Jeremy gasps.
"BEAUTIFUL NIGHTMARE FROM THE BARRICADE!" Al calls.
Annie stands dazed and nearly out on her feet…
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…while a freed Zoe Electric Chair Lifts Annie up, walks to the barricade…
"And the best part is, Zoe HAS recovered!" Cris says with glee.
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…and spins Frazier about her shoulders to position her and Powerbomb Annie right into the barricade!
"That she HAS—AND SHE LETS ANNIE KNOW ABOUT IT, POWERBOMBING HER INTO THE WALL!" Jonathan exclaims. "That security wall RATTLED! It SHOOK! But at the same time it didn't give poor Annie Frazier even the SLIGHTEST amount of give!"
"About as much forgiveness in that wall as there is in Payne herself!" Cris says.
Frazier sits and writhes in pain, her torso, ribs, and now the back of her head equally aching her…
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…much to the pleasure of Payne and Swan, the latter of whom comes into Frazier with a Sliding Dropkick to the chest…
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…before Zoe BASHES Annie with a Payne Train against the barricade!
"That isn't Thomas the Tank Engine comin' for ya; that's the inimitable PAYNE TRAIN to Frazier! And it's RIGHT ON TIME as well! How perfect!" Cris commends.
Bella grabs Annie's leg and starts pulling her up the ramp…
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…and…Zoe stands on Annie's throat, not only choking her…but also keeping her in place on the ground. Bella, realizing this, asks Zoe what she's doing, that they have a chance to deposit Annie into the ambulance…but Zoe shakes her head, and says, "It's not enough. I want MORE punishment."
"Zoe choking Annie, but…I think Bella wanted to take her down to that ambulance—Zoe's not having it though," Al blinks twice. "Oh dear…"
"She doesn't just want to put Annie in an ambulance for victory conditions. She wants to put her there because she'll NEED to be in it when this is done," Cris sneers.
"And judging from how things have been going, only Zoe HERSELF may have a say in that…" Jonathan says.
Bella…nods in understanding, helping Zoe picks Annie back up…
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…or at least begin to do so, before Amy Rose jumps off of the top of the barricade to hit both members of The END with a Diving Double Over Castle!
"BUT THERE'S AMY ROSE!" Al exclaims. "From out of the crowd! Over Castle to snowboarder and vampire alike, jumping off of the barricade!"
"Maybe Zoe should have rethought her callous call to pull Annie back for more abuse!" Jeremy asserts.
"Don't be ridiculous! That was a lucky shot! The first shot of ACTUAL SUBSTANCE for this team, taking Bella and Zoe, TEMPORARILY, both down. Everybody gets one, I suppose!"
Amy grimaces on the ramp, her back hitting the ground almost as hard as Zoe and Bella's skulls…but the Sonic character, after rolling to check once again on Frazier, is the first one to rise. Second is Bella, whom Amy grabs and hits with an Atomic Drop from behind. Bella reels forward…going up the ramp unwittingly…which Amy recognizes, hence her Atomic Dropping Bella a second time…then a third…then a fourth…each time sending Bella staggering a few steps ahead, until the vampire is on the stage. Amy then lifts Bella up for a fifth Atomic Drop…
"The Atomic Drop, in my opinion, is a vastly overlooked maneuver that former WWF Champion Robert Backlund once used to dispatch of foes—RUNNING variation, that, mind you…" Jonathan tells, "but notice how with each Atomic Drop from the veteran Amy Rose—who likely is more enamored with such a move than her more modern counterparts in this match—Bella is being brought further and further up the stage, thusly closer to where the ambulance is!"
"Could be another one…" Jeremy watches.
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…or rather, a Spinning Back Suplex that sends Bella's body crashing into the Minitron onstage!
"Or then again, maybe something DIFFERENT—SPINNING BACK SUPLEX, WOW!" Jeremy gasps.
"And instead of a descent onto Amy's patella, Bella got a spin cycle into the electric board of our Miniature DisneyTron!" Jonathan calls.
Amy adds to the offensive array…with a Snap Suplex onto the stage for good measure! Bella lets out a shout of pain as her body hits unforgiving surface once more…and Amy adds Full Mount punches…before taking note of the ambulance below the stage. After eleven punches to the face, Amy gets off of Bella…takes her…
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…and Hammer Throws her towards the end of the stage…
"Uh-oh, Amy Whips Swan…!" Al's eyes widen.
…where Zoe, back up, grabs Bella, spins her BACK into the opposite direction, and Hammer Throws Bella into Clotheslining Amy instead!
"And PAYNE Whips Swan the other WAY! Clothesline connects!" Al yells. "Amy wanted to hurl the Twilight gal off the stage to the scene of the ambulance, finding her sufficiently worn down for such a toss…"
"…But the Hitwoman of the Revolution wasn't going to permit it! That goes to show that as committed to SLAUGHTERING Rose and Frazier, she still knows who her teammate is, as well as how to defend her if need be!" Cris states. "That's GOOD NEWS. That's Zoe's HUMANKIND showing. …I missed that…"
Bella picks Amy up in a Double Chickenwing, permitting Zoe to riddle her midsection with fists. Amy tries to swat these punches away with kicks using her free legs…and she manages to by pure chance do so with one punch…which prompts Zoe to instead Spinning Back Fist Amy just as the hedgehog is Back Elbowing Bella out of the Double Chickenwing! Bella holds her jaw…but on Zoe's mark, she gets back into it…grabs Amy with Zoe…
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…and The END THROWS Amy and send her flying off of the stage and SPATTERING into the side of the ambulance!
"Bella and Zoe now the ones looking to take Amy offstage—AND HOW!" Al shouts.
"CLOUDBERRIES!" Jeremy shrieks, grimacing at the impact.
"AND OFFSTAGE DOES GO THE SONIC HEROINE! WITH THE AMBULANCE RIGHT IN PLACE TO SAY 'HI, NICE TO MEET YOU!' BUT I CAN GUARANTEE THAT THAT FEELING ISN'T REMOTELY MUTUAL!" Jonathan screams.
"REMINDS ME OF 1999, WHEN THE BIG SHOW CHUCKED MANKIND OFFSTAGE INTO A GRAVE! ZOE AND BELLA JUST INTRODUCED AMY ROSE TO HERS!" Cris yells.
Bella steps off of the stage to the location of the ambulance…and Amy's body…
…and Zoe follows suit herself, the Twilight character opening the ambulance's back door. Bella picks Amy up…
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…but Zoe walks in front of the doors and closes them right back up.
"Bella about to—…" Al raises an eyebrow. "…Well, she WAS about to put Amy into that ambulance… Zoe just closed the doors though…"
Bella raises an eyebrow of her own, asking Zoe why she shut the ambulance doors…to which the snowboarder replies with an audible reply of, "MORE punishment." With those words she picks Amy up…and Military Presses her back onto the entrance ramp.
"…For the second time, Zoe's telling Bella that not enough damage has been done!" Jonathan says.
"After they freaking gave Amy a Fastball Special that'd make Aroldis Chapman turn up his air conditioning?!" Jeremy shouts in disbelief over it. "What does Zoe want to do – turn Amy into a literal mink coat?"
"…YES," Cris answers plain and simply. "That's almost EXACTLY what the SSX star wants to do. And if it isn't, it's pretty damn CLOSE to it."
Zoe walks Amy back towards the ring, holding her in a Torture Rack down the ramp…
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…but Annie Dropkicks Zoe in the back of her kneecap to force Zoe to let go! Amy is freed, and Annie grabs Zoe's head and takes it to the ring apron for a Head Slam! Annie Head Slams Zoe's face into the apron twice before starting to repeatedly HEADBUTT the back of her head! Annie gives the back of Zoe's skull five, six, seven…eleven…thirteen…fifteen…SEVENTEEN Headbutts!
"Amy at the mercy of Zoe Payne—but Frazier, pains in her body and all, rises up to lend a hand!" Al calls.
"Or rather a foot!" Jeremy quips. "TWO feet, actually—okay, NOW she's lending some hands, I supposed—ooh now she's lending a HEAD to this!"
"Double-dipping with that head of hers—TRIPLE, QUADRUPLE, QUINTUPLE, SEXTUPLE, SEPTUPLE, OCTUPLE, NONUPLE, DECUPLE, UNDECUPLE, DUODECUPLE, TREDECUPLE, QUATTUORDECUPLE, QUINDECUPLE, SEXDECUPLE—SEPTENDECUPLE…" Jonathan takes a DEEP breath to regain his oxygen. "…That was a fun ordeal."
"FUN? You found that FUN?" Jeremy gives his brother a peculiar look. "I didn't even know it could GO past sextuple!"
"Recitation of the tuples upon request is one of my proudest personal achievements," Jonathan grins proudly. VERY proudly.
"…Good for you…?" Jeremy fumbles with a congratulation for that. "…Nerrrrrrrd…"
"I heard that."
"I know."
Annie climbs onto the ring apron, Zoe's head and face resting on the edge of the ring from outside…
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…and Annie delivers a Big Splash from the apron onto the back of Zoe's head and neck!
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But Zoe backs away from the apron, and HOLDS Annie up on her shoulders from there!
"Big E Langston-like Big Splash, dropping her weight onto the back of Zoe's—head and shoulders, BUT I DON'T THINK THIS IS WHAT ANNIE INTENDED TO BE A BYPRODUCT!" Jonathan shouts.
"IT'S WHAT SHE'S GETTING THOUGH!" Cris smiles.
"All 126 pounds of Frazier on Zoe's upper body ABSORBED and possibly turned into DISASTER!" Al yells.
Annie senses the danger…and manages to elbow out of the Take a Nap with strikes to the cheekbone, getting back to her feet after eight of them and then Crane Kicking Zoe backward into the steel ring post. Zoe, still on her feet, is leaning there by the steel pole…
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…at which point Annie charges towards her, LEAPS high into the air and gives her an Elevated Ring-Post Bronco Buster, using the post to grab onto and thrust the back of Zoe's head into the metal of the beam!
"Annie doing what she can to fend off the one-women stampede known as Zoe Payne—SPEAKING OF EQUESTRIAL TERMS, HERE'S A BRONCO BUSTER!" Al shouts.
"Utilizing the RING POST as her axle to hold for it! And sending the back of Payne's cranium rattling into the metal consequently, REPEATEDLY!" Jonathan yells.
"That'll either knock some dark voices OUT or put them INTO your head!" Jeremy says. "Either way, it'll put a bump in your hair for certain!"
Annie ceases the Bronco Buster after nine seconds…and Frankensteiners Zoe to the ringside mat from there. Then Annie sees Zoe supine on the floor…
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…and makes her way to the top rope. Annie climbs the corner, looks down at Zoe Payne…
"Annie, don't you dare. DON'T YOU DARE…" Cris threatens.
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…and hits the RR Hitwoman with a Frog Splash!
"She dares—FROG SPLASH ONTO THE OUTSIDE!" Al calls. "From the top rope to the floor! Annie Frazier going high-risk to put a massive DENT onto Zoe Payne!"
"…Not gonna matter. It's NOT GONNA MATTER," Cris snarls.
Annie holds her sternum from the impact, feeling what the move took out of her…but she has the presence of mind to get up…and start dragging Zoe up the ramp, taking her by the arms and shoulders…
"Annie feeling ALL of the inhumaneness wrought upon her by Zoe Payne and The END's might, but she has a task to do, and even her wounds won't prohibit her from fulfilling it!" Jonathan says.
"That's right; hurt as she is, she's gotta try to get Zoe taken care of…" Jeremy says.
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…but Bella Swan blindsides Annie from behind with an oxygen bottle to the back of the head!
"AHA SEE?! I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU IT WASN'T GONNA MATTER!" Cris points.
"BELLA WITH A—…is that an OXYGEN BOTTLE?! Where did…? Was that from the back—yeah it HAD to be! It HAD TO BE in the back of that ambulance!" Al realizes.
"Bella must have taken it out while Zoe was moving Amy back to ringside in the Torture Rack!" Jonathan hypothesizes. "Now she's armed! And the only thing more hazardous to the health than The END in this environment is The END with WEAPONRY!"
Approximately ten seconds later, as Swan is leaning against the barricade with the Philadelphia crowd chanting, "TWILIGHT SUCKS! TWILIGHT SUCKS!"…Bella notices Annie starting to instinctively push herself up from the ground. Upon seeing this, Bella brandishes the oxygen tank…
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…and blasts Annie right in the side of the head with it, hitting her right on her left ear!
"Something that Annie is figuring out RIGHT NOW, IN CASE SHE'S FORGOTTEN!" Cris shouts.
"DID YOU SEE THE FORCE ON THAT?! By God, Annie might have a ruptured eardrum!" Al grimaces.
Bella delivers Knee Drops to the side of Annie's skull…which is now bleeding, the ear in particular. Bella licks her lips subtly upon seeing the life force of the Backyard Girl…
…whom she picks up and drops with a Hangman's Neckbreaker onto the ramp! After that impact, and tending to herself for a moment from that sheer drop, Bella sends Annie back into the ring, some of the blood from Frazier's ear dripping onto the ground and canvas…
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…and Bella picks Annie up again…applies the Inverted Headlock…
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…and—this time has her Hangman's Neckbreaker AIDED by a Zoe Payne oxygen bottle smash to Annie's face simultaneously!
"Neckbreaker a second TIME—AIDED WITH THAT! Aided with an oxygen tank shot to the skull! Zoe Payne showing Annie that everything she's thrown at the SSX Demon has only accomplished the feat of ANGERING her and removing any last iotas of thoughts of mercy," Jonathan states.
"Were there any of those to BEGIN WITH, Mister Jonathan?" Cris smirks with his query.
"…On second though, not a one," Jonathan answers.
"Got that right," Cris nods.
Zoe proceeds to beat Annie's torso with the oxygen tank, raising it with both hands before bringing it down like a mallet! Zoe hits Annie in the ribs once, twice, thrice, four-five-SIX times straight, each one eliciting an achy cough out of the Backyard Girl. Then Zoe hits Annie with the bottle to the leg, then the bottle to the right arm, then to the left arm, then to the opposite leg!
"OY! Jon, you mentioned Bob Backlund; I know enough wrestling history to call THIS a reinterpretation of Ronnie Garvin," Jeremy says.
"Indeed, a GARVIN STOMP but with the oxygen tank rather than your normal boot to the body parts being assaulted!" Jonathan contends to Jeremy's observation.
"Leaving no stone unturned and leaving no limb unbroken," Cris says.
Zoe throws down the tank, grabs Annie by the throat with both hands, and Double Chokes her against the canvas…before POWERING her up to her feet, pushing her into a corner…and Choke Tossing her CLEAR across the entire ring, going almost all 21-radical-2 feet of the way there! Annie stays down supine in front of the corner…
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…and Payne speeds in…and drops an elbow in the form of the Left Mark, her Corner Handstand into the move! After this, Bella grabs Annie's legs…and puts her in a Kneeling Figure-Four Leg Lock.
"Jorge Rivera or Skayde getting his moment of shout-out glory here—La Cruceta applied by Swan…" Jonathan calls.
Bella's submission keeps Annie in place…
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…which allows Payne to run back…and then ahead to deliver another Left Mark to Frazier! Then Zoe gets to her feet, backs up…and gives Annie ANOTHER Left Mark! Then she stands, kicks Annie in the ribs and kidneys, backs up a third time…and gives Annie a THIRD Left Mark!
"ENCORE, ENCORE, ENCORE! BRAVISSIMA!" Cris encourages.
"Zoe Payne taking FULL LIBERTY with the advantage she has right now!" Al says. "Bella Swan being generous enough to put Annie in a position where she can't move out of the way, submission locked in to circumvent Frazier even TRYING…!"
"And now Zoe is just going to town, going to COUNTY on Annie's body, namely the middle part of her with those Left Marks! She's Leaving an OVERABUNDANCE of those Marks on the girl!"
"In Zoe's world, 'overkill' doesn't exist!" Cris chuckles.
Zoe gives Annie more kidney kicks, along with stomps to the stomach and ribs…with Bella's La Cruceta variation still firmly locked in…
"And it's not becoming a part of the vocab TODAY either, it appears!" Jonathan shouts.
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…and a FOURTH Left Mark comes Annie's way moments later! Bella keeps tearing away at the knee of Frazier with her Kneeling Figure-Four, pulling at it as though giving Frazier's patella a Crossface…while Zoe gives Annie a FIFTH Left Mark! Annie desperately tries to roll out of harm's way…and tries swatting at Bella to somehow free herself, but this is to zero avail as well, Bella bobbing and weaving each swipe…
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…which means MORE Left Marks are coming, as Zoe gives Annie a SIXTH one! And not ten seconds later, a SEVENTH one comes down onto Annie's chest!
"SEVEN STRAIGHT Left Marks, and Annie Frazier may just be reduced to ineffective MUSH after all of that!" Al says.
Then Zoe rolls out of the ring…
"But until 'might' becomes 'IS', she's just gonna keep on going!" Cris states.
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…and comes back inside with a lead pipe.
"Oh man, and it's not even a pipe made from any ECO-FRIENDLY," Jeremy bemoans. "It's LEAD…"
"The eco-friendliness of that bludgeon is BOTTOM OF THE BARREL on the list of the Granola Girl's predicaments right now…" Jonathan states.
"Several tiers below the predicament of WHO'S THE ONE WIELDING IT…" Al says.
Zoe walks over to Annie, who is STILL in Bella's Kneeling Figure-Four…
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…and Zoe swings the lead pipe DOWN onto Annie's midsection, battering at the ribs!
"Right back to the RIBS goes Payne with the pipe! And neither the referee nor Frazier herself from the position she's been put in can do anything worthwhile about it!" Jonathan calls. "It's all legal! It's all LETHAL!"
Zoe hits Annie repeatedly with the pipe, getting in FOUR solid blows…
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…before noticing Amy Rose running in, and trying to swing at her…
"Oh, can AMY do anything about it though?"
…but Amy ducks, and Amy hits the ropes after dodging…
"Not if she gets whacked herse—NOPE! Dodged it…!" Al spots.
"Damn it," Cris curses.
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…and the pink hedgehog hits a Flying Forearm Smash to Zoe's face! Zoe drops the pipe, but maintains her vertical base…which Amy tries to compromise with Leg Kicks. Amy hits five consecutive strikes, and then she attempts a Double Knee Inverted Lungblower…
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…but Zoe grabs onto Amy's legs, preventing the move…and then throwing Rose off of her shoulders and flipping her back to her feet—so that Payne can pick up the lead pipe from the mat and SWING again…but Amy ducks it once more, goes to the ropes…
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…and SPRINGBOARDS off of the middle one to deliver a Springboard Double Knee Inverted Lungblower, hitting it this time upon sending her knees into Zoe's chest and coming down!
"Couldn't get that Inverted Lungblower the first time—GOT IT THE SECOND! The Double Knee Chestbreaker!" Al calls.
"Not to be confused with the Double Knee FACEBREAKER or Codebreaker or Max Drive as some of you may know it," Jonathan reminds. "Knees driven through on Zoe's CHEST, not the HEAD…"
"Either way, it got to her!" Jeremy states.
That allows Amy to rush over to Bella and hit her with a Double Sledge, which FINALLY forces La Cruceta to be broken, Annie Frazier left nursing her legs heavily from the extensive stay in the submission hold. Amy presses forward from there, picking Bella up and hitting her with Knife Edge Chops to the chest, each one earning a crowd "WOOOO!" Amy's Chops send Bella towards the ropes, where the hedgehog vaults to the apron and gives Bella and Inverted Hotshot! Bella recoils from there, struggling to stand…as Amy climbs to the top rope, taking a brief moment to clamor to the fans…
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…and then, Amy jumps off, catches and hits Bella with a Diving Side Headlock Facebreaker…
…holds on, runs, and gives her a Running Bulldog while also giving Zoe Payne a Running Seated Senton!
"Rose battling back to get something going in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION—there's two birds for one stone right there!" Jeremy says.
"Ah, come on!" Cris complains. "I liked it better when she looked half-dead!"
"Second time that Amy's done something to take out BOTH members of The END at once, and part of that is veteran's knowhow and instincts; the other part, survival instincts…" Al says.
"That's true—your best bet at surviving ANYTHING with these two is to make sure they're BOTH grounded at a time," Jonathan affirms. "When Annie and Amy tried a Double Suplex to Bella before, it was Zoe who interrupted in emphatic fashion. But later, Amy hit the Double Over Castle, and she and Annie were able to string together SOME—not much, but some—offense their way."
Amy notices the lead pipe Zoe dropped on the canvas…and reaches to pick it up. Upon grabbing it, she stands tall…sees its original wielder getting to her feet…
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…and—DOESN'T nail Zoe in the face with it, as Zoe grabs Amy's arm, kicks her knee out from underneath her…
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…and upon grounding Amy, the CCW RR District Leader puts Rose in a Hizajujigatame!
"Amy wanted to give Zoe a taste of her own petard, but Zoe prevented it, and now what the hell kind of submission is THIS?!" Al exclaims.
"It's a…a Hizajujigatame, in fact!" Jonathan identifies.
"Gesundheit!" Jeremy says.
"You'll see this kind of hold employed in Pancrase!" Jonathan gives more information. "Joshi Shinobu Kandori utilized it over in Japan in her matches, and she has her own judo background as well! You'll see Minoru Suzuki, the second KING of Pancrase, ALSO utilize this hold! It's a variation of the Kneebar while also trapping and bending the arm over Amy's own leg between Zoe's calves!"
"Zoe Payne's submission prowess UNMATCHED in our business! When she wants to hurt somebody, she knows how to do so in the most unique, gruesome, and most importantly EFFECTIVE ways!" Cris states.
"And apparently ways that are difficult to even pronounce—Hiza…whowhatsit? …I'm just gonna call it 'Hiza'," Jeremy shrugs.
Zoe's Modified Arm-Trap Cross Kneebar submission causes Amy to yell out in agony…
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…agony which is MULTIPLIED by Bella's lead pipe shots to the skull of Amy Rose!
"OH! WELL THERE'S NOTHING DIFFICULT TO PRONOUNCE ABOUT THOSE!" Jeremy exclaims.
"SURE ISN'T! And the same dual assault that ANNIE was subjected to is now being brought onto AMY'S head, quite literally in a sense!" Al says.
"And the roles have been reversed with ZOE holding Amy down and BELLA repeatedly striking her with that pipe!" Jonathan notes.
Annie, hearing Amy's howls, tries to crawl over to help, but Bella hits her with the lead pipe too! Zoe keeps the Hizajujigatame cinched in, teeth gritted to almost UNHEALTHY levels as she tightens the hold…tightens it and tightens it and tightens it…
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…before ultimately a full minute passes…and Zoe lets go of the hold, standing back up, glaring at the hedgehog, whose submissions, even if she wanted to give them, would not have ended things. And Zoe knew that.
"FINALLY Zoe lets go of her Hiza…" Jeremy exhales. "…But I don't think she did it because she wanted Amy to have her leg and arm back out of kindness…"
"Can't win this via submission…but THAT particular hold might just make satisfying the ACTUAL winning condition a piece of cake," Cris says. "And by 'might', I mean DID."
Zoe picks Amy up and throws her unceremoniously through the ropes and out of the ring. Bella nods, sensing what Zoe wants to finally do now. Zoe exits the ring…picks Amy up there…
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…and delivers a Ring-Post Front Slam, bashing Rose's spine into the steel pole! Zoe keeps hold of Amy…and rams Amy's back into it a second time! Then Zoe backs away…
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…except she instead traps Amy's arm and holds her in mid-move, putting her in an Elevated Arm Triangle Choke!
"Doing a number on Amy's back and spinal column, and it JUST MIGHT GET WORSE—oh, whoa…!" Al is taken aback by Zoe's move. "WELL THEN…I was expecting that Swinging Side Slam onto the ringside flooring…but Zoe Payne had another idea!"
"And it's another submission, the Arm Triangle Choke! And she's lifting Amy up off of the ground in holding it!" Cris calls. "Look at her! Amy's just dangling there! Zoe could WALK with her if she wanted to!"
Zoe squeezes Amy in the submission, wrapping her arms tightly and even shaking Amy in her grip to add extra pressure to those crucial arteries. Amy kicks her feet in an attempt to do anything to free herself…
…but she is otherwise helpless as Zoe walks her up the entrance ramp in the Lifting Arm Triangle!
"Oh shoot… Oh shoot, she IS! SHE IS!" Cris grins widely. "HA! She's walking Amy up the ramp! Arm Triangle and all! Has Braun Strowman ever done THAT in his life?!"
"The STRENGTH and POWER it takes to do that—and she's choking Amy out along the way as well, so even if Amy fights, it'll all be while she's being garroted at the same moment!" Jonathan says.
"Amy Rose absolutely HELPLESS in the clutches of the SSX Demon, whom up until this point has been carrying people AWAY from the ambulance just to torture them even FURTHER…"
As Zoe ambles, Amy's kicking starts to wane…her breaths shortening…energy being sapped…
"…but I think now Zoe's gotten to the point…where she's about ready to make this one official," Al says.
"Like there was EVER any doubt about it…" Cris smirks.
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…and Zoe even JUMPS off of the ramp to the bottom of the stage to add an extra piece of pressure to Amy's carotid, where the Choke is targeting. And that is enough to just about take the last ounce of Amy's movements out of her spirit. Zoe walks a few steps ahead…
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"I don't know if Amy is even still with us—OOH!" Jeremy winces.
"She won't be for much longer!" Cris affirms.
Zoe rams Amy into the ambulance doors a SECOND time…as Bella, having followed Zoe all the way down there, opens the door to do the honors…
"And Bella, giving Zoe all the room she needs…"
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…but Zoe instead turns around, and she walks back onto the entrance ramp…to carry Amy ALL THE WAY BACK.
"…to bring The END halfway to—…?!" Al pauses in incredulity. "Are you…?!"
"REALLY?!" Jeremy squeals. "I don't believe this! Zoe's walking her BACK?! WHAT MORE?! I don't even know if I can see Amy BREATHING right now!"
"Even BELLA is getting mystified by this! Because as much as Zoe wants to exact her violent fury on Frazier and Rose, there's still the XX Regal Rumble at the end of this rainbow, on the other end of the tunnel!" Al says.
"…THIS is how badly Zoe Payne wants to DESTROY these two girls," Cris simply states.
Bella is absolutely perplexed at this point, outright telling Zoe that they need to focus on ending this so they can advance to the XX Regal Rumble Match…but Zoe is listening not, merely focused on doing one thing: causing more pain. She makes her way down the ramp…
…to ringside—where Annie Frazier flies at her with a Corkscrew Pescado!
"We have NEVER seen Zoe THIS particular, THIS driven to leave—NOTHING LEFT OF HER OPPONENTS BUT FRAZIER SOARS AND SCORES!" Al shouts.
"Corkscrew Fish Attack! Lucha libre coagulating with Annie's love of nature!" Jonathan yells.
"Wait, what about fish, bro?" Jeremy scratches his head.
"Pescado means fish. Spanish translation," Jonathan elaborates for his twin. "Ever heard of Pisces? Piscatorial? Or a pescatarian?"
"OHHHHHHH, THAT MAKES SENSE!" Jeremy's eyes light up. "COOL! …I learned something today."
"And I've never seen you THIS excited about that until this very moment," Jonathan laughs.
Zoe drops Amy and goes down, Annie down with her writhing, Amy down and not making a jolt. Annie's ribs are hollering in pain and torment…
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…but she has the willpower to attempt following up on her attack on Zoe—though willpower doesn't translate to action as Bella cuts in and Kitchen Sink Knees Annie right in the abdomen!
"And with everything The END has done, Annie's attempts to fight back are THAT MUCH MORE difficult to enact!" Al says. "Trying as she is, Bella and Zoe are just overwhelming the Backyard Kid! That knee to the body was AUTOMATIC…"
Bella Swan Hammer Throws the nature lover straight into the steel ring steps next, causing the entire contrivance to tilt on its side for a whole second before crashing back upright. Zoe rises…
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…and the SSX girl has a kendo stick…which she wastes little time in CRACKING across Annie's shoulder, the very one that hit the stairs with the most force! Annie leans on the stairs, as though using them as her sole support mechanism…and Zoe keeps on whipping her with the kendo stick, firing at Annie's spine and shoulder blades! Zoe then hands the stick to Bella, allowing the vampire to have a turn whacking away at the Granola Girl…
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"GAH! That EAR of Annie's… Holyfield might have some company to tell stories to if this continues," Jeremy bleaches.
"The only charity you'll ever see from Zoe Payne—philanthropic enough to share a kendo stick with Bella to hurt Annie with," Al says.
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…Zoe Payne BARRELS into Annie with a Shoulder Barge into Annie's back that sends her forward THROUGH the stairs, knocking them clean off of their base!
"I don't know if philanthropy is the most apropos termiNOLOGY TO USE—ZOE JUST PLOWING THROUGH FRAZIER!" Jonathan exclaims. "THE STEEL STEPS THEMSELVES TUMBLING OVER, AS THOUGH THEMSELVES SCARED OF ZOE PAYNE! AND IF THAT WERE THE CASE, I WOULDN'T BLAME THEM! NOR WOULD ANYBODY ELSE HERE!"
Zoe stands, Annie Frazier lying prone on the steel stair base…and although Zoe needs a moment to shake away the tremors of going full speed into the Backyard Girl, the SSX Demon recovers with the wherewithal to walk over to Annie's upper body, her arms in particular…
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"ANOTHER submission…and this one…huh…kinda looks like a Sharpshooter to the ARMS…" Jeremy points.
"A Scorpion Arm Lock," Jonathan provides the technical term. "And most notably, ANOTHER device with which to trap Frazier and leave her liable to further destruction!"
With Annie's arms trapped, Bella DESTROYS Annie's back and spine with what remains of the kendo stick, thwack after thwack after thwack after thwack after thwack until the kendo stick is reduced to bamboo shards around ringside! Zoe then releases her Scorpion Arm Lock…and transitions to Kawada Kicks…only these are aimed at Annie's forearms, working over the brachial limbs of Frazier with her lethal strikes. Zoe stops after ten kicks each Forearm…and one extra for the right hand for good luck…
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"Zoe might just be aiming to destroy EVERY POSSIBLE LIMB in Annie's body…" Al says, almost in awe that what to some might have been hyperbole was in this case FACTUAL.
"And those steel steps will certainly go places in making that happen!" Cris says. "FEELING SORRY YET, FRAZIER?! IF SO, TOO LATE! YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET CRUSHED ANYWAY!"
Upon request, Bella holds onto Annie's legs…
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"Zoe not even giving Annie time for last words—WELL THERE MIGHT NOT BE LAST WORDS! AT LEAST NOT FOR NOW!" Jeremy shouts. "AMY'S BACK, AND SHE JUST SAVED ANNIE'S TOFU BACON! …That sounds absolutely NOT delicious, by the way."
"Why can't the stupid hedgehog just STAY DOWN WHENEVER ANNIE'S ABOUT TO DIE?!" Cris whines.
"You know, if Zoe had put her in that ambulance before inste—"
"OH I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT!" Cris doesn't even allow his broadcast colleague Al to go on.
Annie is allowed to roll off of the steel stair base, much to Bella's disdain…
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"Amy stepped off of Bella to do that, and Bella looking unappreciative of being used as a PROP FOR RESCUE BUT THAT'S NO SKIN OFF AMY ROSE'S BONES! Although that Drop Toe Hold onto the UNDERSIDE of the steps might take some skin off of Bella's!" Jonathan calls.
Amy turns her body, more or less sitting beside the security barricade from there…
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"PAYNE TRAIN COMING TO STATION SQU—COME ON!" Cris complains…before sneering and snickering. "Pffft! She's going for a SCHOOLGIRL?! …Um, I know that it's been a while since Amy's been booked for a match, but did she get the memo that this contest has NO PINS?! How's that gonna help her?! How're ya gonna have a career resurgence, you dumb rodent, if you DON'T EVEN REMEMBER THE RULES?"
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"…That was actually what she meant to do, wasn't it? …I hate this girl," Cris deadpans.
"Amy's Schoolgirl had ANOTHER purpose!" Jonathan shouts. "Pinfall wasn't what Amy was aiming for, but with that other half of the steps there, Amy saw the opportunity to get one in on Payne!"
Zoe clutches the back of her head, the most legitimate sign of throbbing on Payne all match…
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"Amy knows she might have to do the lion's share to not just take but KEEP ZOE DOWN—THAT'LL BE OF ASSISTANCE! INVERTED DDT PUTS THE BACK OF ZOE'S HEAD INTO THE STEEL A SECOND TIME SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST!" Al exclaims.
Amy helps Annie up…and from the looks of Annie's condition, the help is well-timed and well-placed, as Frazier is looking the worst for wear after The END's offense against her. Amy and Annie then semi-huddle and exchange some words with each other, Amy wearing a noticeably concerned look on her face…
"Amy knows exactly how much has been getting taken out of Frazier so far in this match; she KNOWS how much pain Annie's in," Jeremy says. "Now they're working out SOMETHING… If they're gonna win this, they're gonna HAFTA win it together! It may take both to put away just ONE of The END!"
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"Well, let's see… What did they come up with?" Al says.
"Probably a dumb, useless plan," Cris surmises.
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…grabs her from behind as she holds her up…
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"OHHHH! DOES THAT LOOK DUMB OR USELESS TO YOU?! IT LOOKS PRETTY PROMISING TO ME!" Jeremy shouts. "Man, that is some impact—good kıymalı pide!"
"It may be as you said before, bro, about it taking COMBINED EFFORTS to get either Zoe or Bella inside of that ambulance up the stage," Jonathan says.
Annie grabs the hurt Zoe off of that tandem move…
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"What's this?" Jonathan murmurs.
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"Oh, hey! You're dead on, Jeremy! They're gonna take Zoe up to the ambulance TOGETHER!" Al sees.
"Amy's got Zoe's foot in the Ankle Lock, and Annie's hooked Zoe's arms in the Butterfly! They've got both halves of Zoe neutralized and are using that to make taking her up to that ambulance either EASIER or just plain POSSIBLE!" Jonathan states.
Annie and Amy, both carrying Zoe in a manner such as to render her inert momentarily, make it a third of the way up the ramp…halfway…
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"UH-OH—BELLA!" Jonathan gasps. "SHE GOT AMY FROM BEHIND!"
"Haha, not so cool when ZOE'S partner gets in the way of your tandem work, huh? Well TOO BAD!" Cris mockingly speaks.
Amy loses her Ankle Lock, and Bella aims to plant her face in with the Swan Song on the ramp…
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"Annie helping Amy out of the Swan Song with a CHAOS THEORY ONTO THE GROUND, AND AMY HELPS THAT OUT WITH THE GAMENGIRI TO THE FACE!" Al calls.
Annie and Amy both pick Bella up afterwards…and they give Bella a Double Suplex on the ramp…
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"Double Suplex connects! Something they didn't get before sees the light of day now—BUT ANNIE ISN'T STOPPING THERE, IS SHE?! NO, SHE ISN'T! AND SHE JUST GAVE BELLA A BARRICADE BRAINBUSTER! AND IT SENT BELLA WHERE ZOE SENT AMY EARLIER: RIGHT INTO THE CROWD!" Al shouts.
"Frazier HELD ONTO Bella while Amy Rose got back up to her feet, and how Annie Frazier mustered the strength to perform THAT while in the battered condition she is in is almost MIRACULOUS!" Jeremy states.
"More like FARCICAL if you ask me!" Cris opines.
"BIRD BUSTER, actually—notice how Annie stalled, HOLDING BELLA UP for that Suplex position…before BOOM! Driving her down HARD," Jonathan states.
"Again, HOW did Annie find that strength? I have NO, dare I say, EARTHLY idea…" Jeremy says in awe…with a smirk. "…Teehee…"
Amy looks sincerely amazed by Annie's show of strength at that stage…and even asks Annie if she's okay afterwards, to which Annie nods as the both of them walk towards Zoe Payne…
…who goes for a Double Spear to both ladies, but Annie and Amy both see it coming and Double Arm Takeover Payne to the ground and apply stereo Fujiwara Armbars!
"Amy and Annie, not spending too long to respite as they turn back to Zoe Payne—who ALMOST SPEARS THEM, but a double counter! A DOUBLE counter! And now Frazier and Rose have Armbars of the Fujiwara variety!" Jonathan calls.
Amy and Annie both spend five seconds pulling at each of Zoe's arms…ten seconds…fifteen seconds…
"QUITE PROTECTIVE over these Armbars the hedgehog and Backyard Kid most definitely are, with good reason considering on whom they're being applied!" Al says.
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"Amy relinquishing HER half—so Annie can take BOTH arms and apply Cattle Preservation!" Jonathan exclaims. "STILL doing everything to make sure Zoe doesn't have a moment to rise!"
Annie maintains her Bridging Double Chickenwing, the crowd getting behind her perceptibly…
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"Oh, that's not all…"
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"Amy letting go so she can grab a STEEL CHAIR and subject Zoe to that which Amy and Annie both had to endure themselves! SUBMISSION HOLD, abetted by WEAPON STRIKES!" Al calls.
"BUT ONLY ZOE AND BELLA ARE ALLOWED TO EMPLOY THAT!" Cris complains.
"Says WHO?" Jonathan queries.
"SAYS ME!" Cris replies.
"Well, YOU don't hold the ruling authority over this, and even if you did, I doubt Amy'd listen! And I EQUALLY doubt Annie would too!" Al says.
As Annie is bending Zoe's arms, Amy does a number on Zoe's other set of limbs, giving her TWO hard shots…THREE hard shots…
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"Amy and Annie thinking that they're amassed enough damage on Payne to—WELL, CLEARLY THEY WERE WRONG!" Jonathan yells. "CLEARLY, that projection was incorrect, because Zoe just showed the hedgehog and her partner what SHE still has left in her tank!"
"The same legs Amy delivered…I don't know, HOW MANY shots to—those same legs just thrust the two girls right off of the damn stage!" Jeremy says. "It's like they were barely TOUCHED…"
"Or that they WEREN'T TOUCHED ENOUGH," Cris places his own addendum to that statement.
Amy and Annie fall beside the ambulance's level…and Zoe, lividness almost obvious, picks herself up…stands onstage…
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"What is Zoe doing thi—OH MY LORD!" Al gasps. "ZOE'S GOT THA—ZOE'S GOT THAT GRATING FROM OUR STAGE!"
"SHE PULLED IT OUT OF THE FLOOR!" Jeremy's eyes widen.
"ANYTHING THAT ISN'T NAILED DOWN IS VIABLE FOR PAYNE TO USE FOR COMPLETE TORTURE! AND IF IT IS NAILED DOWN, ZOE'LL BREAK IT HERSELF FOR HER OWN USE!" Jonathan exclaims.
Zoe holds the metal grate in her hands…
"Destroying opponents AND venues!" Cris quips.
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"WATCH OOOOOUUUUU—OH MY MẮM CÁ THU!" Jeremy hollers. "HOW CLOSE?! HOW CLOSE?!"
"SO CLOSE IT SHOULD HAVE HIT THEM! GAAAAAH!" Cris gripes.
"ANNIE CARRYING AMY OUT OF THE WAY OF THAT, SAVING THEIR COLLECTIVE SKINS!" Al shouts. "And that would NOT have been good if that metal grating found its mark!"
"No kidding!" Jonathan agrees.
Zoe, even more peeved, drops down to the floor where the ambulance is…
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"Bella got the oxygen tank from there earlier in the match—now ZOE doing some shopping…and a TABLE is what's coming out of it," Jonathan says.
"On the one hand, we may need that for the autopsy! On the other hand…eh, there'll be other tables! She can use this one," Cris sneers.
Zoe sets up the table, standing it on its legs…and then she grabs Annie by the hair, pulls her up slowly…
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"Amy successfully saving Annie from getting put through that TABLE—BUT NOT QUITE SAVING HERSELF!" Jonathan says.
"Zoe just TANKING that STO Backbreaker, sending Amy Rose onto the back of her head with just VICIOUS whiplash!" Jeremy says.
Zoe grabs Amy off of the ground…in an Inverted Karelin Lift…
"Hey, Amy, need a lift?" Cris jokes.
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"Perhaps she DID—BUT THAT'S CERTAINLY NOT THE DROPOFF THAT ROSE WOULD HAVE PREFERRED!" shouts Al.
"HAHAHAHAHA! You think Zoe cares what Amy 'prefers'?!" Cris laughs.
"I think Zoe only cares that Amy PERISHES here tonight in Philadelphia, and Frazier along with her!" Jonathan states.
"Smart man!" Cris nods.
"She might not have gotten them with the THROW of the grating, but that stage piece STILL finds a way into Zoe's onslaught of suffering!" Jeremy says.
Zoe drags Amy off of the grate and towards the ambulance…its doors wide open…
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"OH! THAT WALL OF THE AMBULANCE OPPOSITE THE ONE AMY GOT FLUNG INTO EARLIER…!" Al shouts. "ANNIE JUST FELT THAT SAME PAIN!"
"Zoe's a nice girl deep down! Whatever she gives to one, she's not going to keep from the other. She doesn't discriminate whatsoever! Isn't she grand?" Cris smiles cheekily.
"A real charmer," Jonathan dryly replies.
"Heheheh…" Cris sniggers.
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"OH! Well Amy sure ain't finished!" Jeremy says.
"Kicking that door right into Payne's skull as she was about to add Annie's carcass to the back of the ambulance…!" Al calls.
Zoe grimaces as she holds the back of her head, letting out a pained but more so angry low growl…
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"OH-OH, PINK ATTACK—CAUGHT BY ZOE!" Jeremy exclaims. "OH CRAP!"
"HAHA!" Cris laughs. "IT MAY WORK IN WWL, BUT IT ISN'T WORKING HERE!"
Zoe turns Amy's Leg Lariat…into an Elevated Prawn Hold…
"Zoe just too strong, just TOO STRONG…" Jonathan says.
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"TABLE AWAITS! THE TABLE AWAITS!" Cris anticipates happily.
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"THE TA—WHAT THE HELL?!" Cris screams.
"AMY! WITH A—WITH A FLASHLIGHT!" Jonathan says. "The back of that ambulance showing to be a GOLD MINE right here! It just prohibited a Zoe Payne Powerbomb for the Rosy Rascal!"
Amy leans forward off of the flashlight shot to sort of Sunset Flip Zoe down, but Zoe remains standing on her feet, Amy left hanging upside-down…
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"OHHHHH MY LUCKY STAAAARRRS!" Jonathan exclaims. "RIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE, ANNIE FRAZIER! SUNSET FLIPPING ON THE BACK OF AMY ROSE'S, AND THE TWO TOGETHER JUST FLIPPED AS ONE TO PILEDRIVE ZOE PAYNE INTO THE UNPROTECTED GROUND!"
"HOW THE F**K?! HOW THE F**K?! HOWWWW THE F**K?!" Cris repeats over and over in SHOCK.
"UNREAL!" Jeremy yells.
The Philadelphia crowd gasps and then POPS upon sight of this showing of teamwork, the Double Piledriver quite innovative in their eyes…as Annie and Amy both take a while to rise…but upon doing so realize that they each have put the Rookie Revolutionary from Baltimore in a susceptible spot…one they can capitalize on…
"If EVER A MOVE could be the one to subdue Zoe Payne in this match and make her vulnerable enough to be sent into the ambulance, THAT PILEDRIVER VARIANT MIGHT JUST BE THE ONE!" Al asserts.
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"WASTING ZERO TIME! PEACEMAKER!" Al calls.
"OHHHH NO, NO, NO!" Cris shakes his head.
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…providing the boost for Amy to hit the Piko Piko Combo to the ground!
"INTO THE PIKO PIKO COMBINATION!" Al yells. "ANNIE AND AMY! THE TEAMWORK FINALLY PAYS OFF!"
Zoe is down…and Annie and Amy, knowing they cannot let a second be squandered, collaborate to snatch her…lift her from the floor…
"THE FLASHLIGHT SET HER UP; THE DOUBLE-TEAM FRONT FLIP PILEDRIVER LAID HER OUT…"
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…roll her into the ambulance…
"PEACEMAKER AND PIKO PIKO COMBO, INSURANCE…"
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…and shut the ambulance doors with Zoe inside!
"AND ZOE PAYNE HAS NOW BEEN AMBULANCED!" Jonathan shouts over the wild crowd. "ZOE PAYNE IS INSIDE THE AMBULANCE!"
"THIS CAN'T HAPPEN! THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING! NO!" Cris denies all of this.
"BUT YOU'VE GOTTA PUT 'EM BOTH IN THERE! BELLA'S GOTTA BE IN THERE TOO!" Al brings up.
"TRUE! BUT YOU CAN'T DISPUTE THE FACT THAT HAVING ZOE ALREADY IN THERE IS A MASSIVE ACHIEVEMENT THAT MAKES THE SECOND HALF OF THIS ALL THE LESS STRESSFUL!" Jeremy asserts.
Annie and Amy exchange a high-five, as Annie exhales, "One down…"
…and Amy replies, "…one to go…" Annie then starts to walk from the ambulance, but Amy puts an arm out to stop her…and Amy grabs the stage grate…
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…and Annie helps Amy lift it up…
"RIDICULOUS—huh? NOW what?!" Cris grumbles.
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…so the two of them can place the metal grating against the ambulance's back doors, keeping them shut with nothing coming inside or outside.
"Oh WHAT?!" Cris is bewildered. "WHAT IS THIS?!"
"IT'S A SECURITY MEASURE!" Jonathan defines it. "IT'S THEIR FAILSAFE! As aforementioned, BOTH Zoe and Bella need to be in the ambulance for Annie and Amy to attain victory! If BELLA gets put in but Zoe gets out, the match will still go on!"
"So Annie and Amy are putting the GRATE up to the doors to keep Zoe from getting back out to prolong this match!" Al finishes Jonathan's explanation.
Annie grins and nods at the establishment, but when she starts to process away, Amy stops her a SECOND time…and this time tells Frazier, "Stay here. I'll get Bella, okay? Make sure that Zoe stays IN THERE. Got it?"
Annie, following the lead of her animal buddy, complies, and as Amy starts climbing her way into the crowd, Annie leans against the grate to keep the ambulance shut and Zoe inside of it.
"And you might or might not have picked up on that, but Amy said, 'Stay here and watch the doors. I'll go get Bella and drag her over here'," Jonathan summarizes.
"Annie's playing Guardian of the Gate!" Jeremy says. "Amy goes on offense; Annie sticks around on defense! You have the halfback; you have the linebacker!"
"…Sure, let's run with those analogies," Jonathan just rolls with it.
Amy walks over to where Bella is located in the crowd, just a few rows of seats and a few feet away from where she was dropped via Bird Buster onto the barricade…
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…but Bella Swan, upon seeing Rose, SLICES her wide open with a crushed soda can from the stands!
"Does Bella even know what has happened to her par—OH MY! OH!" Al recoils. "DID YOU SEE WHAT THAT WAS?!"
"I JUST SAW A SCRAPE BY THE EYES!" Jeremy shouts.
"I think that was a crumpled SODA CAN that Swan picked up!" Cris guesses correctly. "Yeah! It was a crushed soda can!"
"And she just utilized it to SLASH at the oncoming Amy Rose right underneath the eyelid, I believe!" Jonathan says. "The twisted, compressed metal has JAGGED EDGES GALORE on it, so you'd have to imagine THAT SLASH did DAMAGE!"
"Did Bella get that off of the FLOOR somewhere?" Jeremy wonders.
"Who cares?! It cut Amy wide open!" Cris celebrates.
Amy holds the underside of her left eye, where the can cut was delivered…and Bella, seeing the wound, starts zeroing in on it with punches to the laceration. Annie, seeing this from afar and sensing the peril Amy might find herself in, gets noticeably restless, a worrisome frown on her face…
…while Bella keeps punching away at Amy as she is against a wall. Annie knows she was told to stay, but now she is unsure the longer Bella continues to fire away.
"Annie looking on from the distance—she was TOLD to STAY…but watching what happened to her partner and pal in the audience is certainly a tough sight to bear!" Al says.
"ESPECIALLY considering Annie's predilection for animals…" Jonathan adds.
"So you're saying this hurts Annie too? AWESOME! Bella, I KNEW Zoe recruited you in The END for a reason!" Cris revels.
Bella licks her lips…
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…and then CRACKS a beer bottle right over Amy's head, right at the cut! And then she digs the jagged edges of the bottle into Amy's bleeding wound!
"OHHHHH! AND THAT'S JUST GONNA MAKE IT WORSE!" Jeremy grimaces.
"BELLA MAY BE UNDER 21 BIOLOGICALLY, BUT HELL IF SHE CARES!" Jonathan shouts.
"YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG TO SMASH A BEER BOTTLE OVER SOMEBODY'S HEAD!" Cris quips.
"And not just the shattered glass, but the ALCOHOL in the cut on Amy—that'll burn right on her!" Al notes.
"Of course—like liquid salt right into the wound!" Jonathan says.
Bella adds Forearm Smashes to the cut below Amy's eye, and now the pink hedgehog's eyesight is taking a hit…as Frazier is well aware from the distance…
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…and Bella gives Amy Rose a Facebuster, dropping her onto the concrete staircase in the audience's section of the Wells Fargo Center! Then Bella picks Amy's head up from the first step…and gives Amy a Facebuster onto the concrete SECOND step! Then it's a THIRD step a Facebuster, the FOURTH step a Facebuster, the FIFTH, SIXTH and SEVENTH steps ALL Facebusters…
"There sure aren't steps in the name of love!" Jeremy winces.
"We've been talking all match long about ZOE'S mean streak and propensity for violence—BELLA SWAN now showing…that she's not all that merciful herself!" Al states.
"Of course not! She's in The END," Cris qualifies. "NOBODY in The END gives clemency! That's like rule #1 of their code!"
"And Annie Frazier, still over by that ambulance, is looking HORRIFIED…" Jonathan sees. "Even MORE so the longer that this goes on! Amy told her to stay put, but neither Amy nor Frazier expected THIS compliments to Bella!"
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…and then Bella places Amy in a Handrail-Aided Guillotine Choke, using the banister to add extra choking capabilities, obstructing the airway for one. Bella tightens that hold around the head of Amy Rose, even applying a Bodyscissors through the handrail just to maintain the deadly Guillotine. Bella keeps this hold for ten…fifteen…twenty…
"Amy going from pink to PURPLE the longer that this hold stays on!" Jeremy states.
"That Guillotine in the handrail, adding a Bodyscissors around to even FURTHER limit Rose from getting out of this thing!" Jonathan says.
"What the hell do you do if you're Amy?!" Al questions.
"Give up! Surrender yourself to the ambulance!"
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…at which point Annie Frazier grabs Bella off of Amy…
"Surrender yourself to The E—GAH WHAT THE…?!" Cris gasps.
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…and flings her with a Cobra Clutch Suplex down the flight of stairs all the way to the bottom!
"FRAZIER! Frazier hustled into the CROWD—TO HELP AMY ROSE OUT! AND WHAT A HELP SHE JUST DELIVERED BY THROWING BELLA SWAN!" Al exclaims.
"GOD…!" Cris half curses and grimaces, face contorting in reaction.
"At the price of leaving her assigned post, Annie hopped the barricade, ran up the decks, and took an unprepared Bella for a damn FREE FALL down those steps! Cobra Clutch Suplex style!" Jonathan yells.
Annie looks at Amy, distress adorning her face, as Amy coughs out some indistinct words most likely about why Annie was in the crowd and how she got there so quickly…
…but Annie redirects her attention to Bella, who is staggering at the bottom of the steps, up but clearly out of it…
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…so Annie picks Amy up bridal style…
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…and Annie slides down the banister on her bottom with Amy in her arms…before propelling Amy at Bella in a Cross Body Block while she slides off of the pole in a Lou Thesz Press!
"Annie's concern for Amy's state took over—LOOK AT THIS!" Al points. "SLIDING DOWN THE HANDRAIL, AND PILING HERSELF AND ROSE UP ONTO BELLA SWAN AT THE BOTTOM!"
"Now THAT was pretty damn cool! I gotta try that with Tam-Tam sometime!" Jeremy grins. "We'd be AWESOME in Cops and Robbers if we perfected that!"
"This isn't a game here though, brother; this is inventive ENDURANCE," Jonathan states.
"I know, I know—I'm just saying," Jeremy chortles a bit.
After the stairwell sandwiching, Annie gets to her feet…and asks politely if the people in the seats close by to her can move away…so that Frazier can do something next. The fans oblige, some of them chanting Annie's name…
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…as Frazier picks Bella up…
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…and gives her a Falcon Arrow onto the vacated seats! And after the Falcon Arrow, Annie puts Bella in a Lotus Lock! Wrapping her legs around Bella's arms in a Modified Full Nelson Hold on the ground—more so on the actual emptied chairs, in truth…she looks down by her hands…notices a shard of broken beer bottle glass…
"Lotus Lock cinched in after depositing Bella none too gently onto those empty seats she asked ever so politely to be vacated," Jeremy says, "and what's on her mind now? …Actually, what's on her mind might be what's on her EYES!"
"…You mean 'IN her eyes', bro," Jonathan corrects.
"Oh, so you DID bring your grammatical swastika with you to the desk—good to know," Jeremy sticks his tongue out.
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…picks it up…places it to Bella's face, the crowd sensing what Annie's teasing, sounding off "OhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…"
"What was in her eyes just got put IN HER HANDS…!" Al says.
"I'd much prefer it OUT OF HER HANDS, thank you! See? I'M asking nicely! I'M saying thanks! Think you can spot me the favor? Please? PLEASE? PLEASE?!" Cris pleads.
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"NO!" Cris cries.
…and Annie SLASHES across Bella's face with the piece of broken glass!
"Looks like your cries are on DEAF EARS—ON HER FACE! ON HER FACE!" Al exclaims.
"OH CAULIFLOWER GRAPEFRUITS, WHAT A HASH-SLINGING SLASHING!" Jeremy shouts. "AMELIA MCBRIDE ISN'T IN THIS MATCH, BUT THE GOLDEN RULE HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED: ANNIE DOING UNTO OTHERS WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE TO HER FRIENDS!"
"THAT'S NOT EVEN HOW THE GOLDEN RULE WORKS!" Cris wails.
"CLOSE ENOUGH!" Jeremy justifies.
Annie adds elbows…and then kicks to the back of Bella's head, yelling out, "THAT'S CALLED PAYBACK! THAT IS ABSOLUTE PAYBACK!" Amy is the one who motions for Annie to eventually let up on Bella…and so she does…but not out of mercy…as both Amy and Annie recognize that the ambulance is waiting. Both of them pick Bella up…take her to the barricade just behind the bottom of the stage…
"Amy guiding Annie to beg off for a moment…" Al says.
"But judging from where they're taking her, I think there's an ulterior motive behind that ordinance!" Jonathan supposes.
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…and Annie and Amy Double Hip Toss Bella out of the stands and to the four-and-a-half-feet-lower floor beneath the stage down HARD!
"BELLAAAAAAAAA!" Cris shrieks in fright as the vampire hits the ground!
"THAT'S NOT ULTERIOR! THAT'S JUST A FLAT-OUT PAINFUL PLUNGE!" Jeremy shouts.
"PAINFUL YET WELL-PLACED! They've dumped her right in the vicinity of that unattended ambulance!" Al notes.
It takes almost all of forty seconds for Bella to even start to get up, time spent by Annie and Amy resting and tending to their own aches, Amy with her cut, Annie with hers as well as the ailing ribcage…
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…and as Amy sees Bella rising, she whispers something to Annie…whose eyes widen in uncertainty…and trepidation…but Amy insists, "Trust me…"
…and that's all Annie needs to hear…
"…Careful, Annie. Last time somebody asked someone to 'trust them', the results got pretty Rated M for MESSY…" Jeremy mentions.
"Amy insisting that Annie go along with this…!" Al states.
"With WHAT?" Jonathan queries.
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…so she can Hip Toss Amy over the barricade such that Rose flips into a Leg Lariat onto Bella!
"OHHH, WITH THAT! WITH THAT! ANOTHER FORM OF HIP TOSS, THIS ONE WITH AN ADDED VENEER! OFFENSIVE ATTACK! PINK ATTACK! FROM THE CROWD TO THE FLOOR!" Jonathan calls. "And way to answer MY question!"
"Not only that, but it's left Bella in a spot conducive to joining Zoe inside of that ambulance!" Jeremy mentions.
"NO!" Cris shakes his head.
"All they've gotta do is move that giant grate out of the way, open those doors, set Bella in…and they've got Rumble spots!" Jeremy says.
"AND they'll have something unique to them out of anybody else: MAJOR VICTORY over The END!" Al adds.
Amy's Pink Attack with Annie's assist lands flush at the bottom of the stage, and Annie hops down to the bottom of the stage herself safely and carefully out of the crowd, getting on her feet. Annie and the still-alive Amy both pick Bella up…
"They've gotta act fast!" Jeremy advises. "That window of opportunity is OPEN SESAME…"
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…Bella tries to fight back, but Amy and Annie keep a hold of her…
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…until Bella pulls off a desperation Double Eye Rake to hedgehog and nature gal. Annie and Amy hold their eyes, Amy especially…
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…right in front of the door—which gets busted down when Zoe Payne BURSTS out of there with a Flying Shoulder Barge, enough to knock the stage grating onto both of them!
"And with desperation at the vanguard, Bella gets fingers into both Frazier and Rose's eyes—HOOOOOLY CRAP!" Al screams.
"OH MY GOD!" Jonathan shouts. "ZOE PAYNE JUST CHARGED HER WAY OUT OF THE AMBULANCE AND TIPPED THE GRATE DOWN IN THE PROCESS! ROSE AND FRAZIER HAD PAYNE WHERE THEY WANTED HER, BUT THE TICKING TIME BOMB, LEFT UNWATCHED IN THERE, EXPLODED!"
"HAHAHA! ZOE! ZOE!" Cris jumps.
"EXPLODED INTO ANNIE AND AMY'S FACES, AND NOT JUST FIGURATIVELY!" Al yells.
"TALK ABOUT YOUR PRISON BREAKS!" Jeremy exclaims.
Now Annie and Amy are left motionless underneath a giant rectangle of metal…and Zoe Payne SCREAMS at the height of her lung capacity, drawing a HEFTY mix of boos and cheers! The SSX Demon was alive and kicking…and she was MAD…
"That was EXACTLY what Amy Rose was afraid of! EXACTLY WHY she told Annie to stay THERE!" Al states.
"But she didn't listen! Annie got too concerned over Amy! And while she MAY HAVE HAD good intentions, good purposes, thinking about her partner…it may just come back to MAUL HER AND AMY BOTH…" Jonathan shudders.
"I've got the popcorn readyyyyy!" Cris sings.
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…and so the first thing she does is pick up the grate and just throw it away, out of sight and out of mind…leaving the crumpled bodies of Amy and Annie…
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…the former of whom gets picked up and subsequently DECKED with a Take a Nap!
"AMY ROSE GETS PUT TO BED! TAN!" Al exclaims.
"YEAH!" Cris cheers.
"AND IF THAT KNEE WENT ANYWHERE NEAR THAT BLEEDING EYE OF HERS, THAT'S JUST TAKES THIS FROM WORSE TO WORST CASE SCENARIO!" Al shouts.
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But Amy isn't alone…
"Oh? MORE? …Well, WHY NOT?" Cris laughs jovially.
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…as Annie is picked up next, and Zoe Payne gives HER the Take a Nap!
"ANNIE GETS ONE TOO!" Jeremy grimaces.
"INDEED SHE DOES!" Cris relishes this.
"TAKE A NAP CLAIMING BOTH MEMBERS OF THE NATURE TEAM!" Jonathan yells. "FULL FORCE! NEITHER ONE SOFTER THAN THE OTHER!"
"WHERE'S YOUR SUNSHINE NOW, FRAZIER?!" Cris mocks. "'CAUSE FROM THE LOOKS OF IT, THE HITWOMAN OF THE ROOKIE REVOLUTION JUST SOLAR ECLIPSED YOUR ASS! AND RIGHTFULLY SO!"
Zoe looks between the fading Rose and Frazier at either side of her feet…Bella seeing them too…
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"Not done yet? Not done yet! Not done yeeet!" Cris chortles.
"Oh NO…" Al dreads.
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…and NAILS her with this Take a Nap…
…before grabbing Annie and giving her the same, a second Take a Nap!
"TWO MORE TANs! ONE FOR EACH OF THEM! ANNIE AND AMY ROSE GETTING THE HIGHEST FORM OF THE WRATH OF PAYNE!" Cris calls.
"Alright, that's ENOUGH… I think the point has been made…" Jeremy speaks.
Zoe's knuckles almost turn pale from her fists being clenched as tightly as they are…
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…because TWO TANs apiece…wasn't satisfying…
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…so Zoe picks up Amy…
"The point has been made—no, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!" Jeremy shakes his head.
"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE SSX DEMON GETS F*CKED ONE TOO MANY TIMES BY PEOPLE OTHER THAN STAR FORCE!" Cris exclaims.
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…TANs her…picks up Annie…
"THIS IS EXCESSIVE! THIS IN INHUMANE EVEN FOR ZOE!" Al shouts.
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…and TANs her too! And now both Amy and Annie have been recipients of a TRIPLE DOSE of Take a Naps!
"THREE APIECE! THREE TAKE A NAPS APIECE! IS THAT ENOUGH NOW, ZOE?! IS THAT ENOUGH NOW, ZOE?!" Jonathan loudly inquires.
"WHAT MORE DO YOU GOTTA HAVE AT THIS POINT?!" Jeremy yells.
Not a single movement is made by Rose…not a single motion is made by Frazier…as both girls are laid out, laid to waste by Payne…
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…who opens the ambulance doors…
"FINALLY…Payne about to put the lid on this…QUITE MACABRE jar…" Al says.
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…takes Amy…
"It ends…when ZOE PAYNE is satisfied, when ZOE PAYNE wants it to end…and ONLY Zoe Payne…" Cris sneers.
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…and Fallaway Slams her…onto the entrance ramp!
"Zoe puts Amy—…NOT in the ambulance?" Al is REALLY beside himself now. "…Wh—? …I…! AH…!"
"…I guess that satisfaction HASN'T been reached yet?" Cris sweatdrops.
"HOW CAN'T IT HAVE BEEN REACHED?! SHE ATTACKED THEM WITH A PIPE! SHE BROKE BONES IN THEIR ARMS, LEGS, AND BODIES! SHE ASSAULTED THEM WITH A KENDO STICK! SHE USED STEEL STEPS! SHE THREW A PIECE OF THE STAGE AT THEM! SHE THREW THEM INTO WALLS, OVER WALLS, UNDER WALLS AND THROUGH WALLS, AND SHE TATTOOED THEIR FACES WITH LIKE 50 KNEES…AND SHE STILL, STILL, STILL HASN'T BEEN PACIFIED?!" Jeremy bursts. "WHAT'S LEFT?! WHAT ELSE?! HOW ELSE?!"
As Zoe Double Overhead Choke Suplexes Annie to the same place, Bella is MYSTIFIED, wondering how and what would possess Zoe to pass on putting them inside the ambulance NOW of all times. There was NO WAY either one of them, Amy or Annie, was even conscious at this point, never mind able to fight back or prevent a ride in the ambulance. But Zoe wanted to administer MORE PUNISHMENT…whatever that could possibly entail.
"…Can I tell you guys a secret?" Cris asks his broadcast colleagues.
"…What?" Jonathan obliges.
"…I REALLY thought she was gonna put them in the ambulance that time," Cris says in a low voice. "I mean…I don't know what else she'd do either. I thought that THAT would be the exclamation point. I LEGITIMATELY DID… And…now that I see…that she DIDN'T put 'em in…
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"…I'm scared of what Zoe wants to do now."
Zoe…grabs an item out of the ambulance before walking back onto the entrance ramp. The RR member grabs Amy by her wrist…drags her to the apron, said Sonic character putting up virtually no sign of fight on the way there, the consecutive TAN barrage knocking her limp…
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…and…Zoe pulls Amy's hand up…to the middle ring rope…
"Should I cover your eyes, partner?" Al offers.
"…No, no, I-I've gotta call this…" Cris tells Michaels. "Thanks…but for my journalism's sake, SOMEBODY'S gotta be the Voice of the RR here…"
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…and she starts tying Amy's wrist to the rope with a roll of gauze!
"What…? Is that…?!" Jonathan narrows his eyes. "…I think—I think that's gauze!"
"GAUZE?" Jeremy repeats interrogatively. "Oh man, Zoe's taping Amy's wrist to the middle rope!"
"Zoe got that out of the ambulance, taking it with her as she brought Amy back to ringside…and THIS can only be NOT GOOD," Al comments. "In this stage, Amy can barely defend herself even if she's CONSCIOUS!"
Soon enough Zoe does the same to Amy's other wrist also…and Amy Rose is knotted to the rope, hands immobilized, mind only 10% aware of what Zoe has done. Payne leaves the insensible Rose stuck there…as she goes back up the ramp, grabs Annie, and tosses her back inside the ring. Bella, still visibly stymied by Zoe's election to continue with the match, returns to the ring herself on her own volition…as Zoe picks Annie up and gives her a Half Nelson Gutbuster! Annie groans over Zoe's knee, coughing on the canvas…and Zoe dump her off to Bella, who gives her an Inverted Suplex! Bella stands over the heavily-hurt Frazier…
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…and seven seconds later, picks her up once again, Zoe standing by in silent and stoic encouragement…
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…as Bella gives Annie a Slingshot Sit-Out Powerbomb! Annie rolls on the surface of the unforgiving ring, gravely clutching her spine upon impact…
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…and as she wriggles onto her side, she notices an awakening Amy tied to the middle rope outside of the ring…and Frazier lets out a gasp as—Zoe grabs her leg and lifts her up off of the mat to drop her HARD knee-first into the mat with a Knee Slam! Annie nurses her leg, the same one of her legs Bella zoned in on with her Kneeling Figure-Four of earlier…
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…and Zoe pulls Frazier up to give her…a Delayed Capture Suplex, holding her an inch off of the ground with leg folded above her before flinging the Nature Girl across the ring! Zoe turns her head to see Amy, the pink hedgehog starting to come to…and realize she is trapped to the ropes…
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…and the Royal Payne instructs Bella, "Keep her grounded," pointing at Frazier. "But keep her alive. I want her to WATCH."
"Zoe…and obediently, Bella," Cris describes, "taking turns BUFFETING what's left of Annie…and now the SSX Demon gives MORE instructions to her END compatriot—what did she say?"
"I think she said, 'Keep her down, but keep her alive because I want her to watch'… Watch WHAT?" Jeremy wonders.
"Do we want to know? I think that's unequivocally the better question," Jonathan comments.
Zoe exits the squared circle…and as Amy is starting to try pulling herself away from the ropes, the snowboarder picks up the steel ring steps…
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"And with NOWHERE TO GO, AMY ROSE TAKES THE STEEL STEPS TO THE FACE!" Jonathan yells. "COULDN'T GET HER HANDS UP, COULDN'T STICK AND MOVE—THANKS TO ZOE, COULDN'T DO A DAMN THING!"
Zoe drops the stairs, pushing them out of harm's way…before walking back up the entrance ramp, leaving a faint Amy Rose entwined with the gauze to the ropes. Bella, in the interim, gives a sitting-up Annie a Sliding European Uppercut off of the ropes, keeping to her own goal of indeed keeping Frazier grounded…
"Smart girl, Bells; just do what Zoe says…" Cris agrees, because he too is concerned for the snowboarder, her frame of mind, and where it and her are going now.
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…while Zoe walks all the way down the stage, to the ambulance…
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…where she pops open the DRIVER'S SIDE door and pulls the already-ensconced EMT out of the front seat!
"Wait, where is Zoe—HEY!" Jonathan gasps.
"WHAT THE HECK?!" Al shouts.
"She just…she just yanked the EMT out of the ambulance! He's the gentleman who drove the ambulance here and the one supposed to drive it out when this match finds a winner!" Jonathan yells.
"And apparently he was in the middle of his lunch!" Jeremy points out.
The EMT, holding a half-eaten sandwich, complains to Zoe about being suddenly stormed and overridden, to which Zoe replies by throwing the man's soda out of the cup holder and into his face! Zoe then SHOVES the EMT down to the ground…before fully sitting herself inside the ambulance…
"Okay, was THAT called for at all, Zoe?!" Jeremy complains. "NOT COOL! NOT. COOL."
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…and turning the ignition of the ambulance on!
"Stealing his seat, jacking up the dude's lunch—…!" Jeremy hears the ignition start to run. "Okay, WHAT THE KOTLOVINA IS THIS WOMAN THINKING?!"
"She's revving up the ambulance!" Cris exclaims.
"But WHY?! What purpose does Payne have in that driver's seat?!" Al inquires.
"I don't know…but what comes to mind for ME is what you and Cris missed on XX 23 – the LAST time Zoe Payne was behind the wheel of such a vehicle!" Jonathan retells.
Bella, from her place in the ring, hears the ambulance's motor starting up, and she looks up the ramp to the stage in bewilderment, wondering what her fellow END member has in mind. Before she can even inquire, however, or think to do so…
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…Zoe Payne is already driving the ambulance herself, taking it towards the backstage area through the curtains below and beside the stage.
"…Bella's been more or less conforming to ALL of Zoe's ultraviolent tendencies tonight…but even SHE is starting to get disconcerted now—she hijacked the frickin' ambulance for Christ's sakes!" Al says.
"Now, now, guys, maybe…maaaaybe Zoe just wanted to take it out for a spin…so she can clear her mind, calm herself down, and then drive it back safely with a more well-off head," Jeremy suggests with hope. "That sounds perfectly plausible, right? Right? …Also, if Bella were to get put in the ambulance, that would mean Amy and Annie WIN, right? Because The END would be in the ambulance…one on her own power, but still…"
"Considering that the ambulance is, well, GONE…I don't think we're even going to find an answer to that question, bro…" Jonathan tells his twin.
Bella blinks twice at Zoe's…small-scale grand theft auto…
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…but then the vampire gets Schoolgirl rolled up from behind! Frazier trundles Swan all the way onto her chest and stomach with the maneuver, permitting her then to reach for and snatch Bella's legs, applying herself a Calf Slicer!
"OH—BACK IN THE RING! BACK IN THE RING ANNIE FRAZIER! She snuck in on Bella from behind, took advantage of her lapse in concentration—now putting her in the Calf Slicer!" Al exclaims.
Annie takes her turn on tearing apart Bella's legs, the Calf Slicer causing Bella to wince, then yelp out in momentary pain! And the longer and further back Frazier takes the hold, the worse it becomes and the more Bella's yelps turn into pure screams!
"Bella had her eyes on Zoe's departure with the ambulance, and now her divvied task of keeping Annie grounded and writhing just got itself a wrench!" Jonathan says. "Annie's holding on for everything!"
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While Amy Rose tries to fidget her way out of the gauze trap she is in, Bella is in a world of hurt inside the ring…
"Meanwhile, Amy's…Amy's slowly awakening—she's starting to realize where she is! I don't know though if she knows of much else!" Al states.
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"Uh-oh, Bella! Bella's got the throat!" Jonathan points.
From here…
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…Bella uses the chokehold to Mat Slam Annie repeatedly, sending the back of her head directly onto the oxygen tank of earlier!
"OH! OH, THAT'LL COUNTERACT! THAT'LL COUNTERACT IT!" Cris exclaims.
"THROTTLING MAT SLAMS IN THE CALF SLICER HOLD! Finding something to do despite having her leg torqued!" Al calls.
"The back of the head of Frazier BOUNCING OFF of that bottle, the almost forgotten oxygen tank from the ambulance! And those Slams are NOTHING like bouncing in a Bouncy Castle!" Jeremy states.
Bella repeatedly slams the back of Annie's head onto the bottle, giving her three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, UNLUCKY THIRTEEN…
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…FOURTEEN Choke Mat Slams onto the bottle, MORE than enough to force Annie to lose her grip on the Calf Slicer…
…and then Bella gingerly stands and takes Annie up with her, still throttling her…
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…as Swan runs Annie into a corner, holding her by the throat…and STILL holding her after impact…
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…and Bella lifts Annie up and throws her with a Turnbuckle Chokeslam!
"MAINTAINING the grip on Annie's neck and capitalizing with a Chokeslam! A TURNBUCKLE Chokeslam, sending Frazier's body smacking into that corner!" Al calls.
"And BACK DOWN Annie goes!" Cris says. "Just as Zoe would have desired—where IS she? …"
Fifteen seconds pass, and a somewhat rested and reset Bella picks up Annie…and puts her in a Tree of Woe in the corner. Bella kicks at her face four times with boots before backing up…grabbing the oxygen bottle…and using THAT to smack Annie's ribs in! Bella hits Annie with the tank seven times in the ribcage…and five more on Annie's knees!
"Well, if it was almost forgotten before—OOH!—that oxygen tank CERTAINLY isn't getting forgotten right now! Bella's remembering it, and with each shot into each body part so is Annie Frazier!" Jonathan states.
"Making sure NO PART OF HER has any fight or energy left…" Cris states. "And with the Tree of Woe, Annie is TRAPPED."
Multiple Boot Rakes from Bella to Annie follow in the Tree of Woe…
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…as the ambulance of earlier returns…Zoe Payne behind the wheel of it…
"Bella acting to KEEP IT that way—oh…?" Al sees. "The ambulance…?"
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…and said ambulance is now ON the Regal Rumble set stage!
"It's back into view, but like the Princess it's been taken to another location!" Jeremy says. "It's been moved to the STAGE!"
"…Moved to the stage…" Jonathan murmurs.
Amy is making direct eye contact with the relocated ambulance, her eyesight good enough to notice that Payne is in fact the one who is driving…and Bella looks on as well…
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…and the Twilight girl is the first to catch wind of what Zoe is intending to do…and WHY Zoe told her what she told her before about keeping Annie grounded and needing her alive to watch.
"…Moved to the stage, but look exactly WHERE on the stage!" Jonathan points out. "Amy sees it as well!"
"NOW she's aware! Now she's DEFINITELY aware of it!" Cris confirms.
"Is ANNIE aware? Because if she is, the sense of urgency RISES considering who's still taped to the ropes outside of the ring!" Al says.
Some of the fans in attendance…are ALSO picking up on what Zoe wants to do…and for once, the entire building is murmuring not out of support, but FRETFULNESS…
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…and to prove these inklings and fears correct, Zoe starts turning the ambulance…and positioning it such that the back of it is facing the bottom of the stage, the ringside area…and Amy Rose! Amy, now frantic, tries to kick her way free from the gauze, using normal force (or attempting to) in order to break her gauze cuffs…
"And Amy's on her own right now! Frazier's not gonna be worth much to her in the spot SHE'S in!" Jeremy shouts.
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…while Annie Frazier wraps her arms around Bella in an Upside-Down Waist Lock…
"Whoawhoa—HOLD THAT THOUGHT, BRO…!" Jonathan gasps.
"Wait, WHAT is this…?!" Cris queries in disbelief.
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…before bridging herself up the corner she is hung up in, and hugging Bella in the Waist Lock to take her up in addition!
"DOLMA AND BALıQ!" Jeremy hollers. "DID I JUST SEE THAT?! DID I JUST FLIPPIN' SEE THAT?!"
"YES, YOU DID!" Al confirms.
Annie places the surprised Bella atop the corner, right in front of her…
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…and then Annie hooks Bella's arms to deliver a Butterfly Superplex!
"WHAT STRENGTH FROM ANNIE FRAZIER—BUTTERFLY SUPERPLEX!" Jonathan exclaims. "I have NEVER SEEN the Tree of Woe get reversed and turned to offense in THAT FASHION! BEARING DOWN! PULLING UP! SENSING THE DANGER! AND THEN THE THROWING OF THE VAMPIRE!"
"BUT AMY'S STILL TRAPPED!" Cris reminds. "AND ZOE'S NOT AT A DMV, SO SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO WAIT ON ANYTHING!"
"IT MAY BE ALL UP TO FRAZIER TO ASSIST!" Al asserts.
With Bella thrown to the mat and down, Annie now has a chance, massive twinges and all, to skulk her way to Rose and try to help her get free! Annie, every limb in agony, tries to belly-crawl to Amy, who herself is trying to pull one of her own wrists out of the gauze cuff by nothing more than brute force…to hopefully allow herself to grab the other gauze cuff and pry it open subsequently…
"Annie BEYOND hurt right now! Every inch of her is SHRIEKING in pain, but it's gonna feel like a picnic compared to what'll happen to Amy if she can't make it in time!" Jeremy yells.
"She's TRYING!" Al states.
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…but the ambulance revs up, Zoe placing it in prime position…
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…as she switches the gear from 'D'…to 'R'.
"OOOOOOH, SHE'D BETTER TRY FASTER! SHE'D BETTER TRY FASTER!" Jeremy panics.
"ZOE, RETHINK THIS! LET AMY GO FREE! THIS IS BEYOND YOUR REVENGE! THIS IS BEYOND ANY FORM OF RETRIBUTION!" Jonathan yells.
"YOU THINK SHE'LL LISTEN TO THAT?!" Cris skeptically shouts. "I THINK I JUST FELT THE GEAR SWITCH!"
Knowing that danger is seconds away, Annie gets just shy of a foot away from her hedgehog partner and pal…
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"BELLA FASTER! BELLA UP FASTER—SWAN SOOOONG!" Cris shouts.
"NOOOOO! ANNIE WAS ALMOST THERE!" Jeremy loudly laments.
Bella keeps the Full Nelson applied after her Facebuster from it…and she bends back to apply a Full Nelson Stretch!
"SHE WAS ALMOST THERE, BUT THE INJURIES KEPT HER FROM FULL SPEED! THEY INHIBITED THE POOR GIRL! AND SHE COULDN'T BEAT OUT BELLA'S CRAWL EVEN AFTER THE BUTTERFLY SUPERPLEX SHE USED!" Jonathan yells.
"AND NOW, LOOK! LOOK!" Cris points. "FULL NELSON STRETCH! SHE'S REALLY GONNA MAKE FRAZIER WATCH THIS!"
Bella grits her teeth and fangs as Annie whimpers, both in pain and in distress, because with her in that position she knows she can't assist Amy, who is still stuck! Amy keeps trying to shake her wrists out of the gauze…
…and Annie tries to reach out towards Amy, if not with a hand, even a foot—ANYTHING to assist…
"ALMOST DESPAIR IN FRAZIER'S EYES! AMY'S STUCK!" Al yells.
"ZOE, I'M BESEECHING YOU – TURN BACK! TURN BACK THIS INSTANT! DON'T YOU DO THIS TO HER! PLEASE…RECONSIDER! THAT GIRL HAS FRIENDS AND FAMILY, JUST AS YOU DO! THINK ABOUT THIS!" Jonathan exclaims.
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Annie Frazier SCREAMS, the entire Eastern Seaboard hearing her!
And the commentators, save for a quartet of SHARP GASPS…are DEAD SILENT.
The crowd's collective deep breath comes out in a GHASTLY gasp, as smoke and exhaust all build up in front of the ring apron, such that Bella cannot help but cough as she lets go of Annie and rolls away from it… Annie, meanwhile, strained from the Full Nelson Stretch, can only put on a look of unadulterated HORROR…and REVULSION. Her pupils were shaking…her stature…uneven…
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…as Zoe Payne opens the driver's door, thirty seconds later…and she slowly steps out of the ambulance, nudging some hair away from her eyes as she exits. The fans are more in an awed quiet from the scene, the smoke having yet to entirely clear…
"…Oh my God…she actually did it…" Cris is the first, the bravest, enough to speak from the commentary desk. He was in AWE. Even knowing Zoe…even being the Voice of the Rookie Revolution, this caught him by surprise.
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…as Zoe gives a sneer at the point of impact between ambulance and ring apron, the back doors of the medical vehicle bruised magnificently underneath all of the smoke that left the collision spot opaque. Payne returns to the ring, sees Annie's unreservedly scandalized face…
"…Amy? …A-Am—…?" Jeremy stutters, fearing that the one whose name he is calling…is not going to be answering anytime soon…or anytime later…or anytime AT ALL.
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…and Zoe grabs Annie by the hair to pull her to the ropes, placing her head between the ropes and directly into the still-accumulating cloud of smoke and exhaust fumes from the ambulance! Frazier can't see a thing, and she can hardly breathe either, wheezing from being in the middle of the smokescreen! After sixteen asphyxiating seconds, Zoe throws her by the hair back from the ropes, down to the canvas, leaving Frazier to profusely cough and catch her breath…
"…Damn you, Zoe…" Jonathan utters.
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…but as soon as she gets that capacity to breathe…she looks down at the canvas…
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…and starts CRYING. No…she starts WEEPING.
"…Oh man…" a piece of Jeremy's heart takes a hit upon seeing that. Annie's emotions were just SPILLING in front of the entire world.
Tears stream down Annie's face like the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, overcome with despair and grief…and guilt. She almost exactly knew what Reggie Rocket felt a month before at Pandemonium, watching her grommet all but destroyed. This time, though…Annie had just watched her animal friend, the one she convinced to sign with CCW to battle The END…VICTIMIZED…crushed…maybe even DEAD. The Philadelphia fans see this…and even the ones who came to the show to cheer Zoe Payne are brought to their own solemn emotions. The children in the audience have their hands over their mouths, their own dreads coming out…
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…while Bella Swan just says, "You brought this on yourself. You know that." Those words make Annie even MORE distraught…the Backyard Girl on her knees…everything swirling in her head from what to do now…to what she's going to tell Sonic and the Sonic Heroes after this…
"…She's right, you know…" Cris states. "At the end of the day…she's right… Annie CATALYZED this. If she hadn't gotten in Zoe's way in Steelpo—"
"CRIS…stop," Jonathan gravely yet firmly tells the color commentator. The tone in his voice is enough to indeed force Collinsworth to shut his trap.
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"Oh COME ON!" Jeremy raises his voice.
Annie trembles on the mat, prone and almost not WANTING to move anymore…
"…Bunch of bullying jerks…" Jeremy shakes his head.
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…and Zoe Payne puts her in the Payne-Killer!
"And Zoe with the Payne-Killer locked in…" Al calls…quietly…just awed by this level of sadism provided by The END.
"No mercy even now," Cris says.
"Of course not…" Jonathan sighs.
"…Why WOULD there be? Did you hear a bell ring?" Cris asks.
"Cris…" Al implicit scolds his colleague.
The Leg-Trap Camel Clutch of Payne is cinched in, sympathies completely nonexistent to the SSX character. Zoe creases Annie's already-injured spine in half while pulling back at the cranium as well, almost tearing her skull off as well. Annie doesn't even have the energy to yell out in pain, because all pain is emotional now.
"…I don't even think there's a part of Annie that fully comprehends what's going on, what's happening to her…" Al observes. "She's just…broken down in TEARS…"
"Catatonic almost…" Jonathan speaks.
And meanwhile, Bella crouches, Zoe having placed Annie in the Payne-Killer for twenty-two seconds…
…and the vampiric teenager bares her fangs right in front of Annie's face, HISSING right at her…
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"Wait a minute…" Jeremy recognizes this. "…Oh, you're kidding me. Is this Pandemonium all over again? Is this REALLY going to be Pandemonium all over again?!"
"What? Oh, THAT…" Cris blinks twice and then realizes a half-second later.
"…This is how Demon's Dungeon closed…and how they forced Reggie…into giving up for a powerless Emmy…" Al summarizes…and everyone in the audience who recalls that final sequence ALSO knows what's coming…
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…licks the blood from Annie's busted-open ear…
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…whispers something to her…
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"OH SH*T!" Jeremy GASPS.
"WHAT?!" Cris blinks thrice. "D-…DID…?!"
"ANNIE JUST BIT BELLA! ANNIE BEAT BELLA TO THE BITE!" Jonathan exclaims.
"Got her right in the collarbone!" Al states.
Annie sinks her molars, incisors, and front teeth, as many of the thirty-two she has, into the space between Bella's collarbone and clavicle, catching Swan off-guard but also forcing her aback in hold her neck region in pain! Zoe sees all of this, and clasps her hands even TIGHTER together to pull back on Annie's head even harder…
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…but with Annie's hands free, that permits her to grab Zoe's hands, get wrist control, and bite at Zoe Payne's fingers!
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Cris shouts.
"Biting ZOE now! This time it's the hands!" Al calls.
Zoe rolls a distance away and nurses her hands, pushing them close to her stomach, CURSING aloud, "F*CK! F*CK YOU! F*CK!" as she nurses them…Bella doing likewise with her collarbone and clavicle…
"Annie relying on the ONE part of her body that DIDN'T feel like falling off or out of her, the one part she had voluntary ACCESS to…though I can't say I expected her to TRY THAT," Al states.
"I sure didn't either! Hence my earlier expletive—I was BLOWN AWAY by seeing that…!" Jeremy says.
"You might not be alone there!" Jonathan says.
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…while Annie Frazier starts to stand…against everything…
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…and her fists are clenched…
…and her skin is bubbling…
…and her lips are curled in, not grief, not fright…but RAGE…
"Ummmm…" Cris hums.
"…Oooooooooohhhhhhh…" Jeremy's eyes go wide, noticing Annie's alterations in appearance.
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Annie turns her face…and GLARES at Bella Swan…
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…who is leaning on the middle rope—and gets a Leapfrog Body Guillotine from Frazier!
"Annie was in tears a minute ago, but that entire visage has CHANGED!" Jonathan exclaims.
"It sure has, and I've got a feeling it's changed for the ANGRIER!" Jeremy states.
Annie sees Zoe get up, and Frazier receives her with a Discus Clothesline! Annie YELLS out of absolute FURY, wrapping her arms around the rising Payne and hitting her with an Overhead Belly-to-Belly Suplex! The crowd in attendance starts to rally behind the flaring-up Backyard Girl, who adds another Overhead Belly-to-Belly to Bella Swan's menu! Then Annie picks Zoe up in a Bear Hug…and runs her into ALL…FOUR…OF…THE TURNBUCKLES…
"Zoe's close to 170, Annie's 126, and yet the Granola Girl, for the first time, is MANHANDLING the SSX Demon! How often do you see that? How often do you hear it?" Al asks rhetorically.
"How often does it HAPPEN?" Jeremy adds his own rhetorical query.
"Annie manhandling someone, Annie manhandling Zoe, or Zoe being manhandled?!" Jonathan asks himself.
"Yes!" replies Jeremy.
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…before muscling her up out of the Bear Hug…into a Fireman's Carry…
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…which Bella tries to break up but can't, as her Beautiful Nightmare is DODGED…
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…and as she lands on her feet and turns around, Annie proceeds to lift Bella up onto her shoulders too! BOTH members of The END are in Annie's Fireman's Carry!
"Bella trying to disrupt Annie with a Beautiful Nightmare, but even while holding Zoe Annie dodged—OH MY GOODNESS!" Al exclaims.
"NO! NO WAY! THAT IS BONKERS!" Cris yells. "HOW DO YOU DODGE THE KICK BUT PICK THE GIRL UP LIKE THAT AFTERWARD?!"
The Philadelphia crowd STANDS and points in shock and wonder as all 300-plus pounds of Zoe and Bella are in Annie's grasp…
"FRAZIER'S GOT AN OUTBACK JACK'S WORTH OF MASS UP ON HER SHOULDERS!" Jonathan exclaims.
"1980'S WWF REFERENCE AHOY!" Jeremy sneaks in a quip.
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"TARHANA SOUP—ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! SHE'S SPINNING THEM AROUND!" Jeremy squeals. "BOTH MEMBERS OF THE END! AIRPLANE SPIN! BOTH AT ONCE!"
"GOOD GOD, WHAT AM I SEEING?!" Cris loudly wonders.
"SOMETHING THAT BRINGS NEW MEANING TO THE PHRASE 'FREAK OF NATURE'!" Jonathan exclaims.
Annie gives The END ladies seven rotations…
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"DOUBLE! HAPPY! VALLEY! DRIVERRRRRRRRR!" Al hollers over the THUNDEROUS crowd around him. "UNBELIEVABLE! UNBE-FREAKIN'-LIEVABLE!"
"AND MOTHER'S NATURE'S CHILD MAY'VE JUST DONE LADY GAIA PROUD! THAT WAS INSANE! THAT WAS WICKED! THAT WAS NUTS!"Jeremy shouts.
Annie shakes out the aches in her legs, most of which exacerbated by the heavy weight she carried a moment ago…
"She's still hurt, but hurt's giving way to NATURE'S WRATH!" Jonathan says.
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"…Remind me again how we GOT here? Because last I checked, this girl was bawling like a New Year's baby and The END, otherworldly and coldhearted a manner as it was, were about to SOLIDIFY this!" Cris half-whines.
"The nice girl in Annie Frazier has officially LEFT THE BUILDING…"
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"…and Bella Swan's the lucky gal who's about to get another taste of Frazier's flaring FRENZY…!" Jonathan says.
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"KISS OF DEATH! THE PATENTED LIP LOCK!" Al calls.
"AND THE LESBIAN'S PUTTING GUSTO ON THIS ONE, STICKING THAT TONGUE DOWN DEEP, ALMOST FORCING BELLA TO CHOKE ON THIS KISS!" Jeremy shouts.
"She's got two boyfriends, AND THAT'D MAKE THE NAME OF THE MOVE EXPONENTIALLY LITERAL!" Jonathan declares.
After the long smooch, Frazier sets her feet…
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…that Annie catches! Annie sees the high kick coming!
"Peacemaker INTERRUPTED—NO, WAIT! ANNIE CAUGHT THE LEG!" Al sees. "LEG IS CAUGHT!"
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But with Annie holding Zoe's leg, Bella takes advantage with a Step Kick…
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…that Annie ALSO catches! Annie has half of The END's cumulative vertical base compromised…
"BELLA'S LEG ALSO CAUGHT!" Jonathan exclaims. "THE END ON A TOTAL 50% VERTICAL BASE…!"
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"BUT THEY PUT ANNIE FRAZIER RIGHT BACK TO A ZERO PERCENT VERTICAL BASE!" Cris calls. "JUST WHERE IT HAS TO BE! NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY-SCHEDULED ASS-KICKING!"
Zoe and Bella stomp out the Nature Girl, wiping out her second wind while they work to recover themselves…
…as the crowd notices something…
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…while Bella picks Annie up, ten seconds later…and gives her Bella's Bite, the Death Valley Driver across her own knee! Bella and Zoe exchange looks…and determine that it may be time to start loading up that ambulance, which is conveniently just a few feet from where they are standing, thanks to Zoe. The END girls turn around, facing the direction of said ambulance…
"You gotta admit, Annie put up a HELL of a scrap, STANDING UP to The END in a way very few girls would be able to do…" Jeremy states.
"And as Bella indicated in gestures, the one thing convenient about Zoe's vehicular commandeering is the ambulance is in proximity to where they already—wait…WAIT…WAIT A SECOND…"
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"AMY'S UP! DIVING OFF THE AMBULANCE! OFF THE ROOF! SHE'S ALIVE! SHE'S SURVIVED! THANK GOD IN HEAVEN, THE ROSE HATH RISEN IN THE WELLS FARGO ARENA! AND SHE JUST FLEW NEARLY FIFTEEN FEET AT THE HEADS OF SWAN AND PAYNE!" Al shouts.
"'THANK GOD' IS THE PERFECT SENTIMENT! THAT WAS TOO CLOSE FOR ANYBODY'S COMFORT, MOST SIGNIFICANTLY HER OWN!" Jonathan exclaims.
"HOW DID AMY SURVIVE THAT?! DID SHE NOT GET HIT?!" Cris is stunned.
"I DON'T KNOW, BUT I'M DAMN SURE GLAD SHE'S HERE!" Jeremy yells.
All four women are down for a period of time, during which the crowd chants, "AMY! AMY! AMY! AMY!", happy to see that the hedgehog is alive and kicking! It is Rose who is the first to stir on the canvas, half a minute and six seconds later…
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Amy shakes her head. "Got myself free just in time. Slipped underneath the ambulance right before it crashed."
"JUST BARELY…" Jeremy exhales in relief. "Broke her hands out of the gauze and DROPPED DOWN to avoid the impact. That is LUCK TO THE NINETIETH POWER RIGHT THERE…"
"BAD luck if you're looking at this from ZOE'S perspective…" Cris murmurs.
"Oh, thank Viridi!" Annie exclaims, hugging Amy a second time. Amy welcomes this, knowing how scared the blonde was, but she eventually pushes Annie off of her—albeit not roughly so—telling her that they need to refocus on the match…and the people who nearly just ended Amy's life, career, and big return. And Frazier is ALL FOR THAT…
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"And now that the team reunion is over, it's BACK TO BUSINESS PER ROSE'S REQUEST—how's THAT for taking care of business?!" Jonathan shouts. "Cactus Clothesline! Out of the ring go Annie and Bella BOTH!"
"That's a double elimination in the Rumble, by the way—you may have lost sight of this throughout what transpired, but there ARE Regal Rumble slots on the line! And NOW MORE THAN EVER, Amy Rose and Annie Frazier want them!" Jeremy says.
Amy sees Zoe on one knee, and goes over to her to give her a series of Bionic Elbows to the top of Payne's skull. Amy hits a flurry of five, six, seven, eight, nine, TEN 12-to-6 elbows…
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"MODIFIED version of the Rana Driver, kind of like a Tilt-a-Whirl Headscissor into it…!" Jeremy identifies.
"The head of Zoe Payne meeting the canvas—now what's this?" Al queries.
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"Oh? OH! IT'S THE STF!" Jeremy calls. "AND IF YOU KNOW AMY ROSE WELL ENOUGH, YOU CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT INSPIRED THAT HOLD IN PARTICULAR!"
"SIERRA OSCAR NOVEMBER INDIA CHARLIE!" Jonathan hollers.
"BUT YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO A SUBMISSION SPECIALIST!" Cris protests.
Amy pulls back as hard and far as her pink arms will allow on her take on Sonic's Speed Trap, the submission specialist Payne visibly miffed by her position and the discomfort the hold is providing…
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"AND YOU ABSOLUTELYCANNOT DO THAT TO A SUBMISSION SPECIALIST!" Cris FURTHER protests.
"WELL, AMY'S DOING IT! SHE'S DOING IT AND PUTTING EVERYTHING IN HER HEDGEHOG BODY INTO IT!" Al calls. "AND THE SAME ITEM THAT PLAYED A PART IN ENDANGERING AMY'S LIFE, AMY IS USING AGAINST PAYNE TO MAKE THIS EVEN MORE EXCRUCIATING!"
"IRONY AT ITS BEST!" Jonathan shouts.
As Amy tugs and pulls, outside of the ring, Annie gives Bella a Back Suplex onto the cold hard floor! Amy, catching this out of the corner of her eye, keeps rearing back…back…back…motivation fueling her all the way through! Zoe has her palms pressed into the canvas, almost depressing the very fabric of the mat itself with her hands…
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"Man, Amy's pulling BACK on that thing—Payne can't possibly hide the fact that it's having a hell of an effect…!" Jeremy says.
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"Maybe it is, or maybe it WAS, but that doesn't deny that the strength advantage STILL BELONGS TO PAYNE!" Cris brings up.
"As demonstrated here—Payne on her feet!" Jonathan says.
Amy keeps employing the gauze…now using it to cover Zoe's eyes from her Elevated Back Mount…
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"Rose trying to improvise—PAYNE HAVING NONE OF THAT!" Al calls.
Zoe hoists Amy Rose…
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"Uh-oh—those doors…are right within distance of the apron of the ring; she could LAWN DART Amy right into those things…!" Jeremy states.
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"That's exactly what she tries—BUT AMY COUNTERS! Slipped out of it and PIKO PIKO COMBO CONNECTS!" Al calls. "Off the shoulder of Zoe, back to her feet, and back to the attack!"
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"Speaking of attacks, Annie's on some of her own with Bella!" Jeremy says.
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"You don't SAY—JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH!" Jonathan shouts.
"CRAP!" Cris curses.
"THE WINDSHIELD OF THE AMBULANCE! THE WINDSHIELD IS WHERE SWAN LANDS! GORILLA PRESSED! FRAZIER'S STRENGTH COMING OUT ONCE AGAIN!" Jonathan exclaims.
"I HOPE WE CAN STILL DRIVE THIS THING WHEN WE'RE DONE WITH IT, LEGALLY AND ACTUALLY!" Jeremy expresses.
As Bella is strewn atop a semi-broken windshield courtesy of Frazier, Amy measures the other half of The END's representatives…
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"OHHHH, IT COULD BE TIME! ROSE FLOW COMING!" Jeremy telegraphs.
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…and gives her an Inverted Sling Blade, a Spinning Sit-Out One-Handed Bulldog!
"Counters that last one—WHAT A MOVE!" Al exclaims. "What a UNIQUE, DISTINCTIVE offensive maneuver!"
"Like an Inverted Sling Blade almost!" Jeremy calls it.
"A Spinning Sit-Out One-Handed Bulldog is how I would score it," Jonathan says, adjusting his glasses ever so studiously.
"I'm piggybacking off of that! It worked for me in high school; it'll work for me today!" Jeremy quips to a sweatdrop from his brother.
Annie looks inside the ring, seeing Amy sitting on the canvas, Zoe facedown…
"So I guess the synopsis is, you CAN teach an old hedgehog new tricks," Al states.
"Can you teach them how to die?" Cris asks.
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…and she looks at Amy…asking, "THAT one?"
And Amy replies, "Yes…THAT one."
"What's Annie trying to—Amy…wants Annie to get something…" Jeremy sees. "…?"
"I think Annie just FOUND it…" Al says.
Annie gives a giddy, anticipatory smile…
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"OHHHHHHHH HOISIN SAUCE, WHO'S THE BOSS—BUSINESS IS ABOUT TO PICK UP!" Jeremy declares.
"AMY ROSE'S PIKO PIKO HAMMER! It was under the ring just WAITING to be broken out, WAITING to be taken into this battle, and the time for such weaponry HAS COME!" Al says.
"I BEG TO DIFFER ON THAT STATEMENT!" Cris contends.
"BEGGARS, SADLY, CAN'T BE CHOOSERS HERE!" Jonathan retorts.
"DAMN IT!" Cris bemoans that truth.
Amy extends her hands, and Annie places the signature weapon of the Rosy Rascal into the hedgehog's open palm. Amy twirls her hammer at her side, positioning it back over her shoulder…before pointing it at the stirring Zoe Payne, picking her spot, choosing the target.
"Piko Piko in hand…" Al says, "…memories of her life flashing before her eyes minutes ago in her HEAD…and you know she wants to embed that signature weapon of hers into the snowboarder responsible!"
Zoe is almost standing…
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"ZOE, LOOK OUT—THAT HAMMER'S FREAKING GIGANTIC!" Cris warns.
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And then Amy raises the hammer—and Zoe Payne JUMPS and hits a Knee Strike to the face to stop Amy in mid-swing!
"OH! BUT IF ANYTHING CAN STOP A HAMMER SHOT, IT'S A JUMPING KNEE LIKE THAT FROM ZOE!" Jonathan calls.
"SHE WATCHED OUT!" Cris grins.
Amy goes down from the impactful strike, and Zoe clutches her jaw, rubbing it from the earlier Chinbreaker variant from the hedgehog…
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"She might have to watch out AGAIN…!" Jeremy states.
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"Frazier taking a leap, Elbow—OH MY!" Al exclaims.
"WA-HA-HOOOOOOW!" Cris laughs in awe. "THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE IN THE DIRECTIONARY NEXT TO THE WORD 'TANKING'—THAT DISPLAY RIGHT THERE, HAHA!"
"That WAS tanking, in the HIGHEST order…" Jeremy admits.
"Zoe CATCHING the flying Annie and propelling her on contact into a Back Body Drop that left Frazier PRONE rather than supine! I don't think I've ever seen anybody counter a DIVE in that fashion!" Jonathan says.
Zoe goes out of the ring now, rolling there partly out of frustration…but mostly because it was HER turn to grab a weapon of choice…
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"Oh yeah, now it's REALLY hammer time!" Cris grins. "Zoe's been dropping the hammer down in CCW WELL before Amy snuck in here…and doing it better than that pinkie ever COULD, obviously…"
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"Huh?" Cris blinks twice. "No?…"
"Okay, this contest is just FULL of surprises; when has Zoe Payne ever refused access to a sledgehammer?" Al questions.
Zoe reaches below the ring a second time thereafter…
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"When she finds something that'll do the trick BETTER…" Cris's eyes widen.
"I-…is this woman OUT OF HER MIND?! YOU CAN'T DO THAT! Ref, you CANNOT permit this—that is an AXE! A freaking AXE! A sledgehammer is one thing, but an AXE?!" Jeremy squeals.
"What lengths will Zoe NOT go to at this rate?!"Al shouts.
"It's no disqualification; THAT answer your question?" Cris speaks.
"For God's sake, Zoe, show some reason! You're in a Fiction Wrestling match, not trying to destroy a car!" Jonathan shouts.
Zoe gazes at her newfound armament of devastation…and takes it inside the ring with her, still staring at it, almost mesmerized…
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…before setting her sights for Amy Rose, the first "lucky" soul to start to stand. Zoe raises the axe high…not even PRETENDING she isn't headhunting…
"…NOW'S who's gonna do the watching out?" Cris half-sneers.
"Amy dizzied from the earlier knee; she has NO IDEA what that destroyer Zoe has or that it's coming for her!" Jonathan shouts.
"She might be about to figure out though—the HARD WAY, the LATE way!" Jeremy fears.
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"FRAZIER WITH THE TIMELY SAVE—OH, WAS IT EVER TIMELY!" Al exclaims.
"To Zoe, it's just ANNOYING," Cris comments.
Zoe turns around, holding the handle of the axe while Annie pulls at the other end of it. Annie and Zoe engage in a tugging contest, control of the weapon hanging in the balance…
"How's THIS for annoyance—Annie trying to get the axe away from Zoe Payne! And that might be the smartest course of action! Put that thing out of sight and out of mind!" Jonathan shouts.
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…until Zoe uses her pull to execute an Axe-Aided Hammer Throw that sends Annie inadvertently into Amy with a Shoulder Block!
"OH CRUD!" Jeremy gasps. "Didn't mean to do that! Annie knocked into Amy!"
"Because of the centrifugal force behind the axe tug by Zoe!" Jonathan explains.
Annie realizes her accidental knockdown of her partner…
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"Annie, OH GOD OH GOD—OH GODDDDD!" Al shrieks.
"THERE SHE GOES!" Cris shouts.
"THAT'S WHY YOU WANTED TO GET IT AWAY! THAT'S WHY YOU WANTED TO GET IT AWAY!" Jeremy yells. "DAMN IT, SHE MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE TO CHANGE HER NAME TO EVANNIE HOLYFIELD!"
"SHE HIT HER RIGHT ON THE EAR!" Jonathan exclaims. "THAT SAME EAR BELLA FIRST OPENED UP WITH THE OXYGEN TANK! IT HAS BEEN POURING BLOOD ALL MATCH, BUT IT WAS MORE OR LESS CONTAINED! UNTIL NOW! UNTIL THAT!"
A close-up of Annie's left ear shows that it is practically HANGING off of her head after nearly being chopped apart by Zoe Payne and her axe! A REMORSELESS Payne momentarily puts down the axe, grabs the Backyard Girl and chucks her out of the ring to the floor, where more blood from her shredded-up ear can spill. Zoe notices some such blood on her boots…and is tempted to brush it off, but determines that she likes the look of the extra red on her footwear anyhow.
"AND YOU SEE ON THE REPLAY – ANNIE WAS TOO BUSY CHECKING ON AMY! SHE WAS UNDONE BY HER OWN CONCERNS!" Jonathan states. "SHE LENT ZOE HER EAR, AND DESPITE BEING NEITHER A FRIEND NOR A ROMAN NOR A COUNTRYMAN, ZOE TOOK IT NOT SO KINDLY!"
"You KNOW things are out of whack when being FRIENDLY and caring about your tag team partner gets your ear nearly severed!" Jeremy affirms.
"Being friendly didn't get her ear severed! F*CKING WITH ZOE got her ear severed," Cris states.
Zoe bends down, picks up her axe again…and now her whole attention is directed at the one being yet to be axed…and that very being is making her own way back to her feet.
"Well, now NOBODY'S saving Amy," Cris says.
"Annie DOWN, Annie possibly devoid of her hearing…Amy Rose, the next target to come…!" Al speaks.
Payne sends the axe into canvas with a thump, screaming, "TURN AROUND!" at Amy…
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"No matter what I THINK of this, it's all been brought upon themsel—OH NO!" Cris gasps. "GAAAH!"
"THE AXE IS BUSTED! THE AXE IS BROKEN! ALL ZOE HAS IS THE HANDLE, 'CAUSE THE HEAD OF IT JUST GOT BROKEN OFF!" Al exclaims.
"AMY HAD HER HAMMER READY FOR DEFENSE!" Jonathan yells.
The crowd now POPS as Zoe finds herself holding nothing more than the handle of her axe, the metal end of it now completely removed and out of play…
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Amy Rose KNOCKS Payne with the Piko Piko Hammer to the top of the head!
"OHHHH, AND THERE'S THE HAMMER FOR OFFENSE!" Jonathan shouts. "PIKO PIKO HITS ITS MARK!"
"AND ZOE'S DOWN! ZOE MIGHT BE SEEING EGGMEN AFTER THAT!" Jeremy quips.
"RIGHT AT THE POINT OF THE HEAD! SHE COULDN'T HAVE HIT IT BETTER! SHE COULDN'T HAVE HIT IT HARDER! THE MASTER OF THE PIKO PIKO IS STILL PRECISELY THAT!" Al exclaims.
Zoe Payne is LAID OUT in the center of the ring, unmoving off of the Piko Piko Hammer to the skull! Amy spins the hammer above her head and then splays her arms after blowing a kiss, putting the hammer down and grinning at the cheering fans, who know what a job well done looks like. The Piko Piko Hammer strike earns a LARGE pop, some having never seen one in a match in YEARS…others perhaps NEVER seeing one depending on the generation…
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…whose back doors are pressed to the ring apron, unable to be opened.
"And Amy's eyes went right where mine would be going – straight for that ambulance…but because of the way Zoe REAR-ENDED the thing, the back doors are right up against the ring! You can't open them!" Jonathan says.
"That is more DEVASTATING news than you'd think, because the states that Zoe and Bella are in right now are the BEST POSSIBLE STATES for them to be placed inside the ambulance…but it can't be done, oddly enough, thanks to Zoe, the woman who just took the Piko Piko Hammer to the skull!" Al states.
Amy realizes that without access to the back doors, victory is unattainable…and her fruitless tugs at the back door's latches to try and get the doors open reaffirm this reality. So Amy gets outside of the ring…
"So what do ya do?" Jeremy asks, curious as well as anxious, or, as he would put it, "curianxious".
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…and inside of the ambulance, taking HER turn behind the wheel. "It's not Breeze or the Cabriolet…but at least I can reach the pedals," Amy murmurs…
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…as she turns on the ignition to the vehicle…
"I guess the answer is, you do it yourself!" Al says.
"Windshield's cracked though, and Bella's still on the front of the ambulance… If Amy or ANYONE'S driving, they ought to do that driving with CARE," Jeremy says.
"…Zoe was in there to drive the vehicle for DESTRUCTION; Amy's gonna do it for a much, MUCH less nefarious purpose," Jonathan says.
"And are we SURE this pig even has a license?" Cris scowls.
"She's driven cars BEFORE, Cris…" Jeremy says.
"…That doesn't answer my question," Cris returns.
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"Hey-hey! Bella's a PERSON, not a giant raindrop—you think that's funny?!" Cris snarls.
Amy gets out of the ambulance…and with Bella already by the ambulance, Zoe is the only component left. With Annie still down nursing her ruptured eardrum (et al), Amy reaches in…pulls Zoe out of the ring by both of her arms…
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"Bella's already right at the ambulance; Zoe, meanwhile, is being transported right now!" Al says. "And with Annie down and her ear in HORRENDOUS shape along with other body parts to a degree, this one might just have to be a solo run to get The END loaded inside!"
Amy pulls Zoe all by herself, having to stop and go a bit given the weight difference…but continuing to make progress…
"She's handling it decently for the most part…!" Jeremy observes.
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"She's got her ALL THE WAY THERE, hard weight and all—wow!" Jeremy is surprised. "That Piko Piko shot was clearly FULL CONTACT for the journey up the ramp to go that semi-smoothly!"
"First Bella…" Al says.
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"Bella's inside…" Jeremy states.
"No," Cris frowns.
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"And now Zoe's in there…" Jeremy states.
"Noooooooo…" Cris continues frowning.
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"ONE door closed!" calls Jonathan.
"No, no, no, no, NO!" Cris starts to froth in disbelief. "This can't be! This can't be! This CAN'T BE!"
"Get the other door, Amy! Get it—shut it!" Jeremy encourages.
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"Doing all that she can—she's SO CLOSE! She and Annie are SO SURREALY close!" Jeremy calls. "You've just GOTTA push harder!"
"It's one against two though!" Al brings up.
"Two legs versus a whole body!" Jeremy rebuts.
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"OHHH, BUT THEY'RE TOO STRONG! TOO POWERFUL!" Jonathan shouts. "Body versus feet—for now, the feet wins!"
"Guess that means Zoe and Bella LEGGED it out of there…" Jeremy chatters.
Al and Cris both blankly stare at Jeremy for that wordplay usage.
"…I regret nothing."
Bella starts working her way out of the back of the ambulance…
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"Oh, maybe my wordplay doesn't even get to apply here!" Jeremy gasps. "Amy sends Bella right back into the ambulance!"
"Dropkick!" Al notes the move.
Amy then reaches for the door…
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"If at first you don't succeed—OOOOH! WHERE DID ZOE COME FROM WITH THAT?!" Jeremy exclaims.
"ZOE PAYNE THWARTS AMY AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH ONE OF THOSE HOSPITAL MACHINES!" Al shouts.
"I think it's a nebulizer, actually, something for injecting medicines via mist in tubes!" Jonathan says.
"Something at least TWO folks might actually need by the time this match ends!" Cris speaks.
If hedgehogs had cartilage, Amy would be nursing hers in her nose from the vicious shot with the medicine apparatus. Bella crawls out of the ambulance…
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"And NOW your 'if at first you don't succeed' idiom works, Jeremy—only HERE Zoe Payne succeeds TWICE! TWO shots to the head!" Cris calls.
"Both of which rattling the hedgehog who was just THIS CLOSE to putting The END away! The Regal Rumble Match was RIGHT WITHIN REACH…!" Jonathan states.
"Aw MAN…!" Jeremy winces.
"Remember, that eye's still bleeding from when Bella sliced underneath it with the crushed soda can, so when the nebulizer hit her in the face, it probably hit there, too!" Cris brings up.
Zoe nails Amy so hard, the nebulizer falls out of her hands and onto the floor. Bella takes some time to pick some of the slivers of glass out of her body, still feeling the effects of getting thrown onto that windshield…
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"Bella still showing the puncturing byproducts of getting Press Slammed through the ambulance windshield, but nonetheless is still standing, with Amy Rose in her sights…" Al speaks.
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"Uh-oh—upside-dowwwwwn…" Jeremy sings in discomfort.
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"TOMBSTONE ONTO THE DAMN NEBULIZER!" Jonathan exclaims. "BELLA TO HER KNEES, AND AMY ROSE HITS THAT DRUG DELIVERY APPARATUS SQUARE ON HER SKULL!"
Zoe and Bella grab the now unmoving Amy Rose…
"Seems like everything that's in that ambulance is finding its way to affect this match some way or another, minor OR massive; that right there may have decided AMY'S fate in all of this…"Al speaks.
"If The END can just move faster and get her in there!" Cris states.
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"They're right at the bumper…" Jeremy says.
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"I'M THE QUEEN OF THE WORRRRRRRRRRRRLD!"
"What the…?" Jeremy blinks twice and looks around, hearing that voice. "Who…?"
Bella hears this strident outcry…from way off behind her…
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"What the hell?" Cris narrows his eyes.
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"That's what I said, Zoe—what the hell?" Cris says.
Zoe just tells Bella to get Amy in the ambulance…
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"OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cris exclaims.
"FRAZIER! OH MY GOD! OH MY GODDDD!" Al Michaels yells. "ANNIE FRAZIER JUST BOOKED IT FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE RAMP TO THE TOP OF THE STAGE, AND SHE JUST SPEARED ZOE RIGHT DOWN TO THAT TABLE!"
"THAT TABLE WAS WAITING THERE ALL MATCH, READY FOR SOMEONE'S DOOM, AND IT'S THE CAUSE OF DOOM FOR THE SAME PERSON WHO SET IT UP IN THE FIRST PLACE IF YOU RECALL!" Jonathan brings up.
"SO THAT'S WHY SHE SCREAMED, 'QUEEN OF THE WORLD' DOWN THERE! TAKING ONE OUT OF THE PLAYBOOK OF ONE ADAM COPELAND, THE MAN CALLED EDGE, THE YEAR 2001'S WWF KING OF THE RING!" Jeremy hollers.
"…Yeah, let's go with that," Jonathan sweatdrops, knowing the truth.
"OH, HOW CUTE!" Cris screams with the utmost acerbity.
Bella's eyes are SAUCERS, along with the 19,500 other fans' eyes in the building, the latter individuals clamoring out and chanting, "YOU GOT SPEARED! YOU GOT SPEARED! YOU GOT SPEARED!" The Twilight vampire yells Zoe's name, checking for signs of her life after that takedown, Annie herself hardly full of motion herself…
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"HEYHEYHEYHEYHEY BY THE AMBULANCE—ROSE FLOW DDT! ROSE FLOW DDT!" Al exclaims.
"WHAT?!" Cris cannot believe any of this.
"ONTO THE BUMPER OF THE AMBULANCE! BELLA WAS LOOKING OFFSTAGE AT WHERE PAYNE ENDED UP! AND THAT ALLOWED AMY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE AND GET HER SHOT IN! THE ROSY RASCAL MADE THAT SHOT COUNT!" Al shouts.
Amy takes Bella, post-Rose Flow DDT…and shoves her into the ambulance!
"AND THAT'LL MAKE THE AMBULANCE DEPOSIT ACADEMIC—OR AT LEAST FOR ONE OF THEM!" Jonathan exclaims.
"AMY'S ALREADY IN! AND FROM THE LOOKS OF THINGS, ZOE COULD BE NEXT!" Jeremy yells.
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Annie, after nearly a minute, NOW starts to move at the bottom of the stage…although Amy goes to the scene of the broken table helps Annie get to her feet…Annie having trouble maintaining her own vertical base alone…
"…But if that's gonna be the case, it's most likely not gonna be by Annie's hand to go to that ambulance…at least not Annie's hand ALONE," Jeremy says. "She literally FLUNG herself into Zoe to go offstage through that table. And that's with all of the pains she ALREADY had, the ones she ignored EN ROUTE to the table!"
"That's why Amy's down there, to provide that assistance!" Jonathan states.
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"Teamwork, making the dream work… For these two, that dream could be the Regal Rumble and that coveted Zenith Females Championship main event!" Jeremy says.
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"Annie had to drop to the ground there, DEPLETION taking over—Amy Rose handling Zoe, taking her to the ambulance…!" Jonathan states.
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"INSIDE! Now the doors!" Al shouts.
"Come on, please—someone move; SOMEONE MOVE," Cris begs.
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"DOOR ONE IS CLOSED!" Al announced.
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"DOOR TWO IS CLO—OH! OH, IT CLOSED ALL RIGHT! IT CLOSED BUT IT CLOSED ON AMY'S OWN LEFT ARM!" Al exclaims.
"GENIUS!" Cris praises. "GENIUS!"
"BELLA YANKED AMY'S ARM BETWEEN THE DOORS AT THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND, AND THAT IS WHAT CAUSED THE INADVERTENT DOOR-TO-ARM AMPUTATION!" Jonathan speaks.
Amy holds her arm and howls in agony, the doors of the ambulance…NOT closed together, the match continuing…
"AND YOU CAN TELL IT DID A LOT OF DAMAGE!" Jeremy calls.
"Most comically, SELF-INFLICTED damage 'cause Amy closed the door on HERSELF!" Cris states.
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"Bella doing MORE damage; the last thing Amy needed was to give The END an EXCUSE to—wait a minute! Annie's back up, and she just did a Reverse Tree Slam of sorts!" Al calls.
"EXACTLY THAT—Reverse Sit-Out Tree Chokeslam!" Jonathan nods. "And onto the ramp floor too, face-first! Almost akin to Sephiroth's Masamune finish, only his is the STANDARD Reverse Chokeslam Facebuster. This one utilized BOTH hands!"
Annie rubs her ear…or at least what remains of it…and every atom in her body is KILLING her inside and outside…but she knows she can't quit. She knows she can't yield…especially when she looks at the Zenith sign high in the stands over yonder…along with the Regal Rumble sign behind her…
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"Now can Annie finish the job that Amy STARTED?" Al asks. "One inside! One left!"
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"Not for long—OHHH!" Cris shouts. "Zoe's out, and Annie's closer to out COLD the way she hit that roof!"
"FLAPJACK by Payne but with EXCESS ELEVATION along the way—Annie got hung up on the top of the ambulance! She's practically DANGLING over the edge!" Al calls.
With Annie already halfway there, Zoe just pushes Annie's legs to keep her entire body on the top of the ambulance…
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"Not dangling anymore; now she's on TOP…" Jeremy speaks.
"And so is Zoe now…" Jonathan states. "How is THIS going to end up for everyone? There hasn't been a SAFE MOMENT this entire match, and with Zoe and Annie atop the ambulance, I doubt we're starting now…"
Zoe stands on the ambulance, the Philadelphia crowd giving some cheers, showing their enjoyment of the Ambulance Match…or of Zoe…or of Annie…or of blood…
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…the latter of which is dripping onto the ambulance roof courtesy of Zoe Payne's FEROCIOUS Kawada Kicks directly to Annie's gushing left ear!
"NORMALLY you see those Kawada Kicks given to the FOREHEAD of an opponent, but Zoe's got Annie's head turned in such a manner that the Kawadas are going right to the EAR!" Al points out. "That ear that's been HEMORRHAGING ever since Zoe Payne swung her freaking AXE right into it!"
Blood SPURTS out of the ear of Frazier, possibly the last of Annie's hearing in that ear going out as well…and the blood of Annie starts to give the ambulance a borderline paint job. Zoe stops…after NINETEEN Kawada Kicks to the ear…
"Zoe always finds ways to make the most mundane of activities PAINFUL…"
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"…and make PAINFUL activities utterly PITILESS AND MALICIOUS, and we may be seconds away from seeing another example of that in living color!" Jonathan speaks.
"Mainly living color RED, 'cause that's what's coming out of Annie's ear!" Cris quips.
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"Annie doing anything, EVERYTHING, punches upon punches—something SPECIAL was behind that LAST punch…!" Jonathan states.
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"AND SHE JUST WENT FROM NECKBREAKER TO LAST CHANCERY! NECKBREAKER TO AL GORE-ITHM! IT'S LOCKED IN! AND IT'S LOCKED IN DEEPLY!" Jonathan exclaims.
"FRAZIER FIGHTING TO HER VERY LAST BREATH!" Al hollers.
"BUT HER LAST BREATH SHOULD HAVE COME AGES AGO!" Cris whines. "THIS IS—…oooooh…get out of this, Zoe. GET OUT OF THIS, ZOE!"
Annie's Bridging Arm Triangle is TIGHT on Zoe, and Annie HOLLERS with the hold locked in, fans hollering with her! Zoe grimaces, one hand reaching for her jaw as her body is bent aback from the hold, Frazier keeping it in…
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"Bella up on the SIDE of the ambulance, trying to intervene, possibly by yanking Annie down by her leg, but Frazier driving those sandal soles onto that long slice across Bella's face—the one inflicted BY Frazier!" says Jeremy.
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"LOOK AT AMY ROSE, BACK ON HER FEET—AND TAKING BELLA OFF OF THE SIDE! JUMPED INTO A CRUCIFIX DRIVER!" Al exclaims.
"LEAVING HER FEET AND HOOKING THOSE ARMS IN THE LEAP, AND THAT'S HOW SHE DID IT! I WORRY FOR THE LANDING HOWEVER!" Jonathan mentions.
"I DON'T! I HOPE IT WAS HORRIBLE!" asserts Cris.
"There IS solid, uncovered ground down there…" Jeremy speaks.
Annie maintains the Al Gore-ithm, depleting what's left in Zoe Payne…
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"Meanwhile, the Al Gore-ithm is still applie—ho-hold up, hold up, hooooold up…!" Jeremy requests a pause. "What's Zoe…doing…?"
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"What's Zoe doi—OHHHH JIM CROW!" Jeremy cringes.
"WELL, IF YOU WANT TO BREAK A SUBMISSION, ROLLING OFF OF AN ELEVATED SURFACE SUCH THAT THE AGGRESSOR'S HEAD ENDS UP SMASHING ONTO A MACHINE ON THE WAY DOWN MAY NOT BE THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND, BUT IT'S EXACTLY WHAT ZOE DID TO BREAK OUT OF THAT AL GORE-ITHM IN BRUTAL FASHION!" Jonathan exclaims.
"AND GUESS WHAT? IT WORKED!" Cris proclaims.
"NO KIDDING!" Al says.
The Al Gore-ithm is CATEGORICALLY broken…and Zoe Payne is grimacing…
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"But the fall from atop the ambulance, voluntary or involuntary, is gonna take a toll on you either WAY—BUT EVIDENTLY IT TOOK A SHORTER TIME FOR ZOE THAN FOR ANNIE, BECAUSE THE ROUNDHOUSE KICK CONNECTS!" Jonathan yells.
"And WHERE did that boot go? The TEMPLE…and the EAR," Cris points out. "MORE PAIN, MORE BLOOD, MORE AGONY all the way home!"
Blood from Annie and her ear now drips onto the hood of the ambulance…
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"Bless her heart, Annie Frazier has taken an absolute BEATING thanks to The END, thanks to Zoe Payne…and whatever is left now may be about to be permanently SNUFFED OUT…"
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"…if it hasn't already—OH, BUT IT HASN'T ALREADY!" Jonathan exclaims. "IT HASN'T QUITE YET! ANNIE'S GOT ONE LAST KISS!"
Annie holds the kiss for five…six…SEVEN seconds…
"IF THIS IS THE FINAL KISS, SHE'S GONNA MAKE THIS ONE LAST! GETTING ALL OF THE POLLEN RIGHT OUT OF IT FOR ONE LAST EFFORT!" Jeremy yells.
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"CAUGHT IT!" Cris calls.
"OH NO!" Al shouts. "THAT WAS THE PEACEMAKER! SHE WANTED THAT PEACEMAKER!"
"NO PEACE TO BE MADE HERE!" Cris wags a finger.
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"OH NO…"
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"OH MY JESUS CHRIST IN HEAVEN!" hollers Al. "IT WAS HEAVILY CRACKED BEFORE, BUT SOMEWHAT SALVAGEABLE! WINDSHIELD NOW? UNSALVAGEABLE ENTIRELY! ZOE JUST SWUNG AROUND AND LEG-HOOK BELLY-TO-BACK SUPLEXED ANNIE STRAIGHT THROUGH IT! THE SHATTERED PIECES TELL THE STORY!"
"THEY SURE DO—BROKEN BONES, BROKEN SPIRITS, BROKEN DREAMS AND BROKEN HOPES!" Cris affirms. "IT TOOK THAT MUCH FOR PAYNE TO KILL FRAZIER! BUT IT HAS FINALLY BEEN DONE!"
"…AND NOW YOU REALLY CAN'T BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE THAT OUT OF HERE!" Jeremy shouts. "WHICH IS THE LEAST OF PROBLEMS, BUT IT PROVIDES ME WITH SOME PERSONAL LEVITY TO WATCH DOWN WHAT I'VE BEEN SEEING, SO I BEG YOUR DANG PARDON IF I MUST! BUT GOOD LORD!"
Annie's upper body, head and shoulders, hits the glass with MERCILESS authority as the entire windshield ends up in fragments, some of the glass ending up coating the ambulance's front seats on the inside…
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"Zoe dumping Annie into the front of the ambulance through the BROKEN GLASS…through the windshield just, STOMPING her through it…and I guess that'll count as 'inside'," Al speaks.
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"And Amy's first thing was to punch first—but Zoe had her guard up! And BELLA from behind! Right back to that arm!" Al calls.
"Hammerlock Back Suplex Lungblower by the vampire Bella Swan, who ALSO returned to her feet, much to Amy's surprise behind her…" Jonathan speaks.
Zoe walks over to Amy, the latter's arm aches EXACERBATED on the ground…
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"…Oh nononononononono! Zoe NO! Not now! Not here! Not this! IT'S GOTTA BE OVER!"
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"IT'S GOTTA BE OV—OH MY GOODNESS! THE ARM SNAP!" Jonathan gasps. "SHADES OF XX 23 AND HER ASSAULT! AND IT WAS JUST AS GRUESOME NOW AS IT WAS THEN!"
"AND JUST AS UNCALLED FOR!" Jeremy adds.
"THAT IS A MATTER OF OPINION," Cris tells Jeremy.
Amy SHRIEKS as her arm is sent back the wrong way, quite possibly out of its socket entirely…
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"ONE LAST MESSAGE TO SEND! ONE LAST ACT TO CARRY OUT! ONE LAST INJURY TO INFLICT!" Jonathan shouts.
"This, guys, is called THERAPY for Zoe Payne—THERAPY," Cris speaks. "THERAPY for all that she's been through…"
"There comes a point where 'revenge' just becomes something PERVERSE in comparison, and Zoe Payne crossed that in TRIPLICATE this evening!" asserts Al.
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"Thank God it's over now, MERCIFULLY…" Jeremy sighs.
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"…Or IS IT?" Al winces.
"OH MY GOD…" Jeremy pulls at his hair. "IT'S DONE. YOU WON. HAVE FUN IN THE RUMBLE ALREADY—GUYS!"
"To be fair it's not 'guys'… It's ZOE…" Jonathan mentions.
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"Zoe climbing in…Zoe's getting in the ambulance—don't tell me she wants to ride with Amy and Annie in there…" the thought passes by Jeremy's head. "What is she—is she…is she going to FORFEIT? Is she going to pull Bella in, push Amy out and forfeit the match out of remorse?"
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"Good guesses, but how about a PAYNE-KILLER instead?" Al says.
"OH FOR—WHY?! FOR WHAT?!" Jeremy screams.
"Making this as DECISIVE AS POSSIBLE…" Cris answers.
Amy SCREAMS, music to Zoe's ears as the Payne-Killer is tightened…Zoe utilizing her Leg-Trap Seated Double Chickenwing variation of the maneuver! The yells of distress just get LOUDER and LOUDER!
"I said it before, and I'll repeat – Amy Rose…and Annie Frazier…THEY ASKED FOR THIS," Cris says. "You don't have to like it; you don't have to be okay with it. But THIS IS WHAT THEY EARNED. And you notice it's the Double Chickenwing variation of the grip? That means Amy won't be sinking her teeth into Zoe's hands, and should not even waste her final moments trying!"
Zoe rumbles, "WHERE'S YOUR SONIC NOW, HUH?! WHERE'S YOUR SONIC NOW?! WHO'S GONNA SAVE YOU?! WHO THE F**K'S YOUR SONIC RIGHT NOW?! RRRRRRRGH!" And the hold STAYS CINCHED IN…
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"…Amy Rose, the determined pink hedgehog…just faded to blackness…" Jonathan says.
"…She and Annie, they…ah, man… Can't say they didn't have their moments…but judging from the way they look NOW…" Jeremy's voice trails off.
Zoe and Bella each have a door in hand, Bella closing hers in…
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"…while Zoe and Bella are headed to the Regal Rumble," Al confirms. "It is FINALLY over…and not a moment too soon—my God…"
"Here are your winners, the team of Bella Swan and Zoe Payne…The END!" Blader DJ announces…
…as the EMT that had been pushed out of the ambulance earlier slinks his way back onto the stage. He slowly approaches his vehicle…noticing all of the damages done to it, from the spoiled paint job to the shattered windshield…
…before Zoe, panting against the ambulance, turns her head to the EMT, SLAPS the side of the ambulance and yells, "GET THEM OUT OF HERE!" That is enough for the driver to hop his way inside the vehicle, not even bothering to complain about the said damages. He was given an order…and per Zoe's words, he was going to follow through…as the ambulance's siren went on, providing an extra rhythm to go with "Christcontrol" playing over the speakers.
"Annie Frazier, Amy Rose—you have to give them points for trying," Jonathan speaks as Zoe GLARES in the direction of the exiting ambulance, shattered windshield glass no let to it…yet. "You have to give them marks for tangling with The END in a match that Annie felt would give Zoe a taste of what she gave to the Granola Girl, a ride in an ambulance…but it was just not to be…"
"Not to be AT ALL…" Jeremy says. "Zoe Payne came out and wanted to just DESTROY everything in those two girls, to the point where things were PROLONGED and Zoe would carry them BACK from the ambulance…just to inflict more punishment. Well I hope she's happy now…"
Oddly enough, at that very moment, a sitting Bella on the stage pats Zoe's calf, asking her, "Feel better?"
"…" Zoe looks down, hears Bella's query…and points to the Regal Rumble sign on the Minitron. "…Ask me again after I win THAT."
"She'll be happy when she wins the Rumble later tonight, just like you heard!" Cris states. "THAT'LL make the Hitwoman ecstatic. THAT'LL get her going if you don't want her to beat you up. This should be a LESSON to you…a lesson to us all…"
"…I sure learned something…" Al murmurs.
"Bella wanted to end it on the faster side because of the Rumble to come; Zoe wanted to go on until a MASSACRE was fulfilled… Zoe won that battle…but keep in mind, Bella will be in the Rumble too because of this victory… Don't think we won't be recording it…though I can only wonder what's left in the tank thanks to Zoe's decisions."
"They're CONSCIOUS, aren't they? That's more than can be said for Freak 1 and Freak 2," Cris states. "Those two are enjoying a niiiiiiiiice deep sleep. Happy to be present to watch my District Leader and her partner provide it."
"The END VICTORIOUS…The END most DANGEROUS…and by the end of the night, we could be on course for something with as much magnitude as an ALL-END FEMALES TITLE MATCH for Zenith in Tokyo…though time will have to tell," Jonathan says. "For now…let's just…pray that Frazier and Rose are…already receiving medical treatment, because thanks to Zoe…they'll need it."
Zoe walks to the back in a huff…slightly calmer than before on her end, while Bella looks at the Regal Rumble sign herself…and keeps a stoic, emotionless look as she heads to the back herself, leaving the crowd to take in the debris…and the memories…
